Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1909 — PEASLEY CLARK LOST LIFE IN OKLAHOMA CITY. [ARTICLE]

PEASLEY CLARK LOST LIFE IN OKLAHOMA CITY.

Well Known Stone Road Worker, Who Went Away Five Weeks Ago, Victim of<Fatal Accident Peasley Clark, well known in Rensselaer and Remington, and one of the best natured and squarest men that ever labored in Rensselaer, was killed in Oklahoma City either Saturday or Sunday, but the particulars of the accident that cost his life, have not been learned. The telegram bearing the sad news of his death was sent by Herman Churchill to W. H. Beam, and merely stated that he had been accidentally killed. He had no relatives here except Sam Stephens, who is a cousin, and after Sam was informed of the death he sent a telegram to Peasley’s father at Elizabethtown, Ohio, and getting no reply left this morning for Sheldon, 111., where a sister of Peasley lives. It is not known whether burial will take place at Oklahoma City, or whether the body will be shipped here or to Ohio. Peasley has been in Jasper county for about ten years, working first at Kniman. He came to Rensselaer during the time the stone road work was in progress and later went to Remington and took charge of the country work, there as a foreman for W. F. Smith & Co. He continued there until about six weeks ago. Five weeks ago last Friday he left with “Kid” Churchill to begin work as an elevator carpenter. They went first to Memphis

and later to Oklahoma City. It is presumed that he was engaged in this work when the accident that resulted in his death occurred. He* had worked as an elevator hand here when the extension to the Babcock & Hopkins elevator was being built. Peasley Clark was extremely popular here with all who knew him. He possessed a very jovial disposition and the in which all who knew him seem to hold him, is a high tribute to his many good qualities.