Individual Details

Death

Monticello express as listed in Zimmerman Family Genealogy....Page 144
Harold was eighteen months old when a sad occurrence happened on this Wayne township home.  Harold died two hours after he fell into a tank of kerosene.  The accident occurred on Saturday morning in a small shed near the Zimmerman's home.  The baby was accompanied by a brother, who witness the accident, and pulled him out of the barrel.  Harold was rushed to the hospital, but never regained consciousness.  It seem that the day before the accident a quantity of sacks, of corncobs, were piled near the barrel of kerosene.  The baby was chasing a kitten when the accident happened, climbing up on top of the sacks of corncobs, accidentally removing the cover on the kerosene barrel.  The child's body was completely submerged in the kerosene.  He was removed immediately after the accident, but it is thought that he had swallowed some of the oil.  Funeral services were at St. Matthew's Lutheran church on Tuesday evening.  Buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Monticello, Iowa.  This followed Bennie's death just three months before.

Burial

1106 Harold A Zimmerman 1924 Lovell Tsp Lovell Tsp 8/14/1926 Ralph Zimmerman, father