Name: John Allen Gawith
Death: 23 Jun 1952 in , Grant, Oregon
Burial: 25 Jun 1952 Elgin City Cemetery, Elgin, Union, Oregon
Marriage 1 Isabell Pauline Southard b: 8 Mar 1918 in Severance, Weld, Colorado
Blue Mountain Eagle
June 27, 1952
Mt. Vernon Log Mishap Kills Driver
John A. Gawith, 49, John Day logging truck driver, was killed about 4 p.m. Monday on Laycock creek road, near Mount Vernon, when he attempted to drop a loose log from his loaded truck.
Sheriff Robert Damon said the mishap apparently occurred when the loose log slipped from the binders and them him under the truck where he struck his head.
Gawith was hauling his first load of logs out of the Laycock creek area with a new truck. He is reported to have been en route to the Blue Mountain mills, hauling for Paul Langenfeldts.
A brother died in a similar accident near Mount Vernon in the summer of 1947.
Death: 23 Jun 1952 in , Grant, Oregon
Burial: 25 Jun 1952 Elgin City Cemetery, Elgin, Union, Oregon
Marriage 1 Isabell Pauline Southard b: 8 Mar 1918 in Severance, Weld, Colorado
Blue Mountain Eagle
June 27, 1952
Mt. Vernon Log Mishap Kills Driver
John A. Gawith, 49, John Day logging truck driver, was killed about 4 p.m. Monday on Laycock creek road, near Mount Vernon, when he attempted to drop a loose log from his loaded truck.
Sheriff Robert Damon said the mishap apparently occurred when the loose log slipped from the binders and them him under the truck where he struck his head.
Gawith was hauling his first load of logs out of the Laycock creek area with a new truck. He is reported to have been en route to the Blue Mountain mills, hauling for Paul Langenfeldts.
A brother died in a similar accident near Mount Vernon in the summer of 1947.
Name: John Allen Gawith
Death: 23 Jun 1952 in , Grant, Oregon
Burial: 25 Jun 1952 Elgin City Cemetery, Elgin, Union, Oregon
Marriage 1 Isabell Pauline Southard b: 8 Mar 1918 in Severance, Weld, Colorado
Blue Mountain Eagle
June 27, 1952
Mt. Vernon Log Mishap Kills Driver
John A. Gawith, 49, John Day logging truck driver, was killed about 4 p.m. Monday on Laycock creek road, near Mount Vernon, when he attempted to drop a loose log from his loaded truck.
Sheriff Robert Damon said the mishap apparently occurred when the loose log slipped from the binders and them him under the truck where he struck his head.
Gawith was hauling his first load of logs out of the Laycock creek area with a new truck. He is reported to have been en route to the Blue Mountain mills, hauling for Paul Langenfeldts.
A brother died in a similar accident near Mount Vernon in the summer of 1947.
Death: 23 Jun 1952 in , Grant, Oregon
Burial: 25 Jun 1952 Elgin City Cemetery, Elgin, Union, Oregon
Marriage 1 Isabell Pauline Southard b: 8 Mar 1918 in Severance, Weld, Colorado
Blue Mountain Eagle
June 27, 1952
Mt. Vernon Log Mishap Kills Driver
John A. Gawith, 49, John Day logging truck driver, was killed about 4 p.m. Monday on Laycock creek road, near Mount Vernon, when he attempted to drop a loose log from his loaded truck.
Sheriff Robert Damon said the mishap apparently occurred when the loose log slipped from the binders and them him under the truck where he struck his head.
Gawith was hauling his first load of logs out of the Laycock creek area with a new truck. He is reported to have been en route to the Blue Mountain mills, hauling for Paul Langenfeldts.
A brother died in a similar accident near Mount Vernon in the summer of 1947.
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