John was the son of Patrick McDermott and Mary "Gannon" McDermott from Ireland. His father was a cousin to P.H., J.T. and Bartholomew McDermott that first came to Elko in the mid 1860's.
John came from a family of six children (three sisters and two brothers )all born in California and Nevada.
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World War I Draft Registration
Name: John Mcdermott
County: Elko
State: Nevada
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1873
Race: White
FHL Roll Number: 1711534
DraftBoard: 0
Tall, slender, blue eyes, brown hair.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Oct 10, 1942.,
Page Two:
Man Is Killed Beneath Train
Jumped Under Wheels Witnesses Report
A man tentatively identified as John McDermott about seventy years of age, was instantly killed shortly after eleven oclock this morning when he plunged under the wheels of an eastbound freight train at the Raslstan street crossing.
Webb Millen, driver of a grocery truck, was waiting on the south side of the crossing for the train to pass.He told officials that the elderly man came up to the passing train and apparently deliberately jumped beneath the wheels of a freight car. Millen was the only eye witness available, but Bert Canonic, employee of the White Pine Lumber company told police he had seen McDermott hurrying past the lumber mill toward the train at a few minutes after eleven.
McDermott is believed to be survived by his widow and a daughter in Reno, but at a late hour today they had not been located .
McDermott is believed to have been a former resident of Elko. The body was taken to the O'Brien Rogers Co.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada)
Oct 12, 1942
Funeral In Elko For Train Vitim
Funeral services will be held in Elko for John McDermott who was crushed to death by a train in Reno Saturday. The body was accompanied from the O'Brien- Rogers chapel Sunday evening.
Mr. McDermott was sixty nine years old and had spent most of his life in Elko.. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary McDermott ; two daughters, Mrs. Clarence Harris of Reno, and Mrs. Claud Thomas of San Diego; a brother and sister, T.E. McDermott of Elko and Mrs. Jess Morgan of Rupert, Idaho, and two grandchildren, Janet Dee, and Norman Brown, of Reno.
Research and transcription by JMB.
John came from a family of six children (three sisters and two brothers )all born in California and Nevada.
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World War I Draft Registration
Name: John Mcdermott
County: Elko
State: Nevada
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1873
Race: White
FHL Roll Number: 1711534
DraftBoard: 0
Tall, slender, blue eyes, brown hair.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Oct 10, 1942.,
Page Two:
Man Is Killed Beneath Train
Jumped Under Wheels Witnesses Report
A man tentatively identified as John McDermott about seventy years of age, was instantly killed shortly after eleven oclock this morning when he plunged under the wheels of an eastbound freight train at the Raslstan street crossing.
Webb Millen, driver of a grocery truck, was waiting on the south side of the crossing for the train to pass.He told officials that the elderly man came up to the passing train and apparently deliberately jumped beneath the wheels of a freight car. Millen was the only eye witness available, but Bert Canonic, employee of the White Pine Lumber company told police he had seen McDermott hurrying past the lumber mill toward the train at a few minutes after eleven.
McDermott is believed to be survived by his widow and a daughter in Reno, but at a late hour today they had not been located .
McDermott is believed to have been a former resident of Elko. The body was taken to the O'Brien Rogers Co.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada)
Oct 12, 1942
Funeral In Elko For Train Vitim
Funeral services will be held in Elko for John McDermott who was crushed to death by a train in Reno Saturday. The body was accompanied from the O'Brien- Rogers chapel Sunday evening.
Mr. McDermott was sixty nine years old and had spent most of his life in Elko.. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary McDermott ; two daughters, Mrs. Clarence Harris of Reno, and Mrs. Claud Thomas of San Diego; a brother and sister, T.E. McDermott of Elko and Mrs. Jess Morgan of Rupert, Idaho, and two grandchildren, Janet Dee, and Norman Brown, of Reno.
Research and transcription by JMB.
John was the son of Patrick McDermott and Mary "Gannon" McDermott from Ireland. His father was a cousin to P.H., J.T. and Bartholomew McDermott that first came to Elko in the mid 1860's.
John came from a family of six children (three sisters and two brothers )all born in California and Nevada.
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World War I Draft Registration
Name: John Mcdermott
County: Elko
State: Nevada
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1873
Race: White
FHL Roll Number: 1711534
DraftBoard: 0
Tall, slender, blue eyes, brown hair.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Oct 10, 1942.,
Page Two:
Man Is Killed Beneath Train
Jumped Under Wheels Witnesses Report
A man tentatively identified as John McDermott about seventy years of age, was instantly killed shortly after eleven oclock this morning when he plunged under the wheels of an eastbound freight train at the Raslstan street crossing.
Webb Millen, driver of a grocery truck, was waiting on the south side of the crossing for the train to pass.He told officials that the elderly man came up to the passing train and apparently deliberately jumped beneath the wheels of a freight car. Millen was the only eye witness available, but Bert Canonic, employee of the White Pine Lumber company told police he had seen McDermott hurrying past the lumber mill toward the train at a few minutes after eleven.
McDermott is believed to be survived by his widow and a daughter in Reno, but at a late hour today they had not been located .
McDermott is believed to have been a former resident of Elko. The body was taken to the O'Brien Rogers Co.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada)
Oct 12, 1942
Funeral In Elko For Train Vitim
Funeral services will be held in Elko for John McDermott who was crushed to death by a train in Reno Saturday. The body was accompanied from the O'Brien- Rogers chapel Sunday evening.
Mr. McDermott was sixty nine years old and had spent most of his life in Elko.. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary McDermott ; two daughters, Mrs. Clarence Harris of Reno, and Mrs. Claud Thomas of San Diego; a brother and sister, T.E. McDermott of Elko and Mrs. Jess Morgan of Rupert, Idaho, and two grandchildren, Janet Dee, and Norman Brown, of Reno.
Research and transcription by JMB.
John came from a family of six children (three sisters and two brothers )all born in California and Nevada.
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World War I Draft Registration
Name: John Mcdermott
County: Elko
State: Nevada
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1873
Race: White
FHL Roll Number: 1711534
DraftBoard: 0
Tall, slender, blue eyes, brown hair.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Oct 10, 1942.,
Page Two:
Man Is Killed Beneath Train
Jumped Under Wheels Witnesses Report
A man tentatively identified as John McDermott about seventy years of age, was instantly killed shortly after eleven oclock this morning when he plunged under the wheels of an eastbound freight train at the Raslstan street crossing.
Webb Millen, driver of a grocery truck, was waiting on the south side of the crossing for the train to pass.He told officials that the elderly man came up to the passing train and apparently deliberately jumped beneath the wheels of a freight car. Millen was the only eye witness available, but Bert Canonic, employee of the White Pine Lumber company told police he had seen McDermott hurrying past the lumber mill toward the train at a few minutes after eleven.
McDermott is believed to be survived by his widow and a daughter in Reno, but at a late hour today they had not been located .
McDermott is believed to have been a former resident of Elko. The body was taken to the O'Brien Rogers Co.
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Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada)
Oct 12, 1942
Funeral In Elko For Train Vitim
Funeral services will be held in Elko for John McDermott who was crushed to death by a train in Reno Saturday. The body was accompanied from the O'Brien- Rogers chapel Sunday evening.
Mr. McDermott was sixty nine years old and had spent most of his life in Elko.. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary McDermott ; two daughters, Mrs. Clarence Harris of Reno, and Mrs. Claud Thomas of San Diego; a brother and sister, T.E. McDermott of Elko and Mrs. Jess Morgan of Rupert, Idaho, and two grandchildren, Janet Dee, and Norman Brown, of Reno.
Research and transcription by JMB.
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