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Name: Martha Elizabeth Meiser [Martha Elizabeth Frank];
Birth Date: 14 Jul 1916;
Birth Place: Indiana, United States;
Gender: Female;
Race: White;
Hispanic Origin: Not Hispanic (Latino);
Death Date: 2 Dec 1994;
Death Time: 01:30 AM;
Hospital of Death: Long-Term Care Facilities;
Death Place: Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA;
Certificate: 097304;
Age at Death: 78;
Hospital Status: Other/Nursing Home;
Social Security Number: 299-03-1145;
Father's Surname: Frank;
Mother's Maiden Name: Baker;
Marital status: Married;
Education: 12;
Industry of Decedent: Own Home/At Home;
Occupation of Decedent: Housewife/Homemaker;
Primary Registration District: 4703
- [S6] Ancestry.com, Summit County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1840-1980, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Summit County Court of Common Pleas - Probate Division; Akron, Ohio; Volume Number or Range of Dates: Vol 189, 1964.
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Name: Martha E Frank;
Father: O V;
Mother: Anna Bell Baker;
County: Dekalb;
Gender: Female;
Birth Date: 14 Jul 1916
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Name: Martha F Meiser;
Birth Date: 14 Jul 1916;
Address: 707 Margaret Dr, Kerrville, TX, 78028-5021
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- [S662] Newspapers.com - The Akron Beacon Journal - 3 Dec 1994, (Name: The Akron Beacon Journal; Location: Akron, Ohio; Date: 3 Dec 1994;), 3 Dec 1994, Page 34.
Martha E. Meiser
Martha E. Meiser, 78, formerly of Akron, died in Obertin, Ohio.
She was the wife of Robert E.; mother of Kathryn L. Decker of Oberlin, John of Payette, Idaho, Richard of Doylestown; grandmother of six, great-grandmother of two; sister of DeLoss Frank of Hudson and Harriet Wright of Kerrville, Texas.
Memorial service at 12 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Cuyahoga Falls.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58731364/the-akron-beacon-journal/?xid=637
- [S106] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Cuyahoga Falls, Summ.
- [S640] Newspapers.com - Garrett Clipper - 8 Jan 1920, (Name: Garrett Clipper; Location: Garrett, Indiana; Date: 08 Jan 1920, Thu;), 8 Jan 1920, Page 1.
O.V. FRANK, MAIL CARRIER, KILLED BY INTERURBAN CAR
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Apparently Failed to See Danger Until Too Late; Leaves Seven Children
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O. V. Frank, of Auburn, 41 years old, mail carrier, was instantly killed and his automobile in which he was riding, ground under the wheels of the north bound Fort Wayne & Northwestern interurban car which leaves Auburn at 6:56 a. m. in an accident at the Morning Star road crossing north of that city Friday morning. He had left his home just a short distance east on the road a few moments before, to start on his mail route.
It being an unusually cold morning he had bundled up well before leaving his home and had the side curtains on the car.
The automobile was square on the track when the interurban car hit it, so centered that the radiator of the car dropped on the west side of the track while the rear wheels remained on the east side of the crossing. The automobile was overturned, rolled and tumbled down the track north in front of the car a distance of between 250 and 350 feet before the car was stopped. Mr. Franks was killed instantly and his remains strewn along the right-of-way.
Gave Proper Alarm.
According to Motorman Joseph Summergill and Conductor Gaskill who were in charge of the car, the proper alarm was given as the car neared the crossing.
Mr. Gaskill, who is the oldest conductor on the road, reports this as his first accident, and stated that he had just walked to the front of the car. He said the enclosed Ford car was right in front of them on the track. There was a crash, the cow catcher and light of the interurban were snapped off and the car pushed the Ford machine down the track until stopped. The interurban car was going at a good speed when it struck the automobile, having just left the city limits of Auburn.
Chester Hodge, who lives near the crossing, was in his yard when he saw the interurban car approaching the crossing and also Mr. Franks coming west on the road from his home. As the two neared the crossing he wondered who would stop first and was dumbfounded to see the automobile on the track directly in the path of the oncoming interurban. There came the crash and he could see the car as it turned over and over again.
Body Badly Mangled.
The Dilgard hearse was called but it was impossible to get the remains in a hearse and a basket was brought to take him to the undertaking parlors, so badly was his body mangled. He was crushed about his head and right side, his legs cut off, and his body badly mangled in other ways. The Ford car was completely demolished.
Mr. Franks had been a mail carrier for about three years on R. F. D. No. 3. He was a school teacher for years and was a good workman as an interior decorator. He had recently sold his property in Auburn and moved to his five acre plat north of Auburn which he purchased from G. A. Bassett. He formerly taught school in Garrett.
O. V. Franks was born in DeKalb county in 1878. November 16th, 1901, he married to Miss Hannah Baker who as his widow, survives him with seven children, Mildred, 16, Delos, Russell, Harriett, Robert, Cleon, and Martha. He has four brothers, Ira O. of Dubuque Ia., C. C. Franks of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, C. A. Franks of Branch Michigan, and H. H. Franks of Auburn.
His relatives think that the brakes on his car refused to work and that this was reponsible for his death. Others are of the opinion, however, that he never saw the car or if he did, could not stop in time to avoid the accident.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21592823/garrett_clipper/?xid=637
- [S54] Ancestry.com, Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Dekalb County, Indiana; Index to Marringe Record 1882 - 1920 Inclusive Let, W. P. A. Original Record Located County Clerk's Of; Book: 17; Page: 13.
- [S174] Don and Joan Hinks Collection, Certificate of Marriage for Vernon Frank and Anna Baker.
- [S40] Ancestry.com, Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Page: 142.
Name: Robert Eugene Meiser;
Gender: Male;
Race: White;
Age: 23;
Event Type: Marriage Registration (Marriage);
Birth Date: 19 Feb 1915;
Birth Place: Dekalb, Indiana;
Marriage Date: 28 Aug 1938;
Marriage Place: Indiana, United States;
Residence Place: Auburn, Indiana;
Father: Albert Karl Meiser;
Mother: Hazel May Abel;
Spouse: Martha Elizabeth Frank
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