Individual Details
Harold Ahrend Zimmerman
(5 Nov 1924 - 14 Aug 1926)
Events
Birth | 5 Nov 1924 | Lovell Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | |||
Death | 14 Aug 1926 | Lovell Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | |||
Burial | Oakwood Cemetery, Jones, Iowa, United States |
Families
Father | Rohlf Gerhard "Ralph" Zimmerman (1885 - 1970) |
Mother | Catherina Harms (1885 - 1964) |
Sibling | Benhard G "Bennie" Zimmerman (1908 - 1926) |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Olena K Zimmerman (1914 - 2006) |
Sibling | Rudolph "Rudy" Zimmerman (1916 - 1976) |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Living |
Notes
Death
Monticello express as listed in Zimmerman Family Genealogy....Page 144Harold 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, fatherEndnotes
1. Oakwood Cemetery burial list, US Genweb and Jones Co. Genealogy Society online http://iowajones.org/cemetery/Oakwood03.htm], accessed March 2008.
2. Oakwood Cemetery burial list, US Genweb and Jones Co. Genealogy Society online http://iowajones.org/cemetery/Oakwood03.htm], accessed March 2008.
3. Oakwood Cemetery burial list, US Genweb and Jones Co. Genealogy Society online http://iowajones.org/cemetery/Oakwood03.htm], accessed March 2008.