The Altoona Herald, Altoona, IA
June 26, 1913

EDW. AVISE
IS KILLED

He Was Thrown Beneath the
Cars and Killed Instantly
Body Was Badly Mangled.

It was indeed a shock to the
community Saturday morning
when the news was flashed over
wire and from tongue to tongue,
that Ed Avise had been killed the
night before, just east of town.
Ed had been working on the Inter-
Urban as brakeman on the
freight for the past year and it
was while performing the duties
as brakeman that he met his
death. He was assisting the rest
of the train crew in placing a car
on the siding at Tucker's Crossing
about three miles east of
town when he fell beneath the
wheels and was killed instantly.
The accident occured about 10
o'clock Friday night and being
dark the rest of the train crew
seem to know little of just how
he was hurled to his death. But
they missed him and upon search
found his body, beneath the rails,
mangled and bleeding, one leg
was broken twice, one arm broken
his skull crushed and his face and
body torn and lacerated. He was
killed instantly and it is thought
that he must have received a
shock, perhaps from the trolley
and then fell beneath the car,
where he was caught and dragged
for about twenty feet upon the
ties and cinders of the road bed.
The accident occured about one
mile east of the home of his par
ents. His brother Norman, who
was at the home of his parents and
Hunter, who lives near, also his
sister, Mrs. Hecker, were notified
immediately. The brothers went
at once to the scene of the acci
dent and remained until the arriv-
al of the coroner from Des Moines
in a special car. The body was
then taken to the Selover &
Knight undertaking parlors in
Des Moines where it remained
until Sunday afternoon when it
was taken to his home at 2331
East Walnut street and was then
brought to Altoona Monday morning
for the funeral and burial.
The news of his death cast a
shadow of sorrow over this community,
where he had lived and
grown to manhood and sympathy
from the very depth of every
heart went out to the young wife
who is grief stricken and to his
aged father and mother and broth
ers and sisters. His mother has
been very ill and was under the
care of a trained nurse, when apprised
on Saturday of the death
of her son the night before.

John Edward Avise was born in
Hancock county, Illinois on August
the 28th 1875, hence he was 37 years
9 months and 22 days of age. His sun
has set at noonday, he is cut off from
the land of the living before living
out more than half the allotted time,
But we rest in the faith that a loving
Father in the skies has some good
purpose to serve by his death, and so
we humbly bow to his will, and try to
make it our will. He was the seventh
child in a family of eight consisting
of five sons and three daughters
children of William H. and Cassander
Avise. His parents and all his brothers
and sisters survive him. His
aged mother is very ill at the old home
and this makes the shadow the darker,
and the burden heavier. All his
dear ones except his mother were pres
eat at the services. Surelv they
should have the sympathy of all who
know them. His brothers and sisters;
Mrs. Julia Hecker; Norman N. Avise;
Mrs. Millie Clark; all of Altoona; Mr.
Amisa Avise, of Ventura Iowa;
Hunter Avise; Mrs. Bertha Mason both
of Altoona; and Dennis Ellsworth
of Mason City, Iowa. His parents
lived in the county of his birth since
he was some fifteen years of age
when they came to the vicinity of
Altoona, where they have ever since
resided or since 1890. He grew to
manhood on the farm. When he was
21 years of age he went to Des Moines
to learn the barber's trade. At
Altoona he met Miss Nettie Alice
Porter daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will-
iam Porter, and was married in her home
February the 23d 1904. This was a
very happy union broken all suddenly
by his death. To this union no child-
ren were given. This leaves the faith-
ful wife alone in the world,but for
her relatives. After their marriage
Mr. and Mrs. Avise moved to Way-
land, Iowa, where he worked at his
trade. After one year there be moved
to Bondurant, Iowa, where they
resided for four years. They then
moved to Boone, Iowa, where they
remained one year, then to Mitchell-
ville, where they resided for three
years. Last October they moved to
Des Moines, residing at 2331 E. Wal-
nut street.

He was a member of the Masonic or
der and O. E. S. Chapter, his lodge
being at Mitehellville. He was also
a member of the Modern Woodmen at
Bondurant and of the Brotherhopd of
Railway Trainmen in Des Moines.
In 1804 he confessed his faith In Christ
and united with the M. E. church at
Altoona. After his marriage and
while living at Bondurant he united
with the Church of Christ. On re-
moving to Mitchellville he took his
membership there, on coming to Des
Moines he (unreadable) his membership in
the Capitol Hill Church. It was our
joy to visit Brother and Sister Avise
in their home. He was regular In
his attendance at church and was
deeply religious. This is our only
source of comfort. We believ that
he was a good man and that he has
come into the house not made with
hands in the skies. The funeral ser
vice was conducted Monday at 10 o'.
clock a. m., at Altoona, his boyhood
home in the Church of Christ by his
pastor Rev. H. E. Van Horn of the
Capitol Hill Church of Christ, Des
Moines, assisted by the pastor Rev.
Brighton. The music was furnished
by a double quartet from the Mitchell
ville church of which choir he had
been a member. Following the services
at the church his home lodge
Crystal Lodge No. 313 and the local
King David lodge No. 407, A.F. & A.
M. took charge of the body and con-
ducted the service at the grave. The
Silver Star Chapter of Mitchellville
attended in a body. The esteem
in which he was held was shown by
the large attendance at the funeral,
the church being packed to standing
and some were unable then to get into
the building. The floral offerings
were many, coming from sympathizing
friends, relatives and the orders.
Beautiful designs were sent by Crystal
lodge No. 313, Silver Star Chapter
Woodmen and B. of R. T.