Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1916 — Son of David Heath Meets Death Near Oxford. [ARTICLE]

Son of David Heath Meets Death Near Oxford.

Joseph P. Heath, son of David Heath, of Oxford, met ’ a~horrible death Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by suffocation in a bin of oats on his father’s farm two miles east of Oxford. Young Heath was 22 years of age. It is believed that he slipped into hin -of oAts. which was in the barn and fell head first, the oats covering him so that he could not extricate himeslf. Jacob Dienhart, who works on the farm, was in the bam at the time and as soon as the accident happene4 he went to Heath’s help and soon had him extricated from the oats. Two doctors were summoned but they were unable to revive him. His mouth was full of oats, showing that in his last gasps for breath he literally choked himself to death. He was married ten months ago to Miss MnNamee, a school teacher at Oxford and they were living on his father’s farnl.