Wesley Wentworth

The body of Wesley Wentworth was brought here last Saturday evening for burial by the side of his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Wentworth. The funeral was held at the Wentworth home in Weimerille, at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. L.H. Camp, officiating. He is the last one of this family, his mother having passed away some two months ago, the result of an automobile accident near Cheyenne, Wyo. Wesley was killed by a tree falling on him in the woods near Fox Park, Wyo. He had been dead some 36 hours when the body was found last Wednesday night. His wife and five children were living here so the children could go to school and Wesley was batching it and working in the lumber camp getting out railroad ties. So he wasn’t missed right away. When found his body was lying across one tree with another large tree lying across his chest, which evidently crushed him to death immediately. His father was bridge superintendent here for years and he was born here July 7th, 1889, so was past 35 years of age. He was married to Miss Georgia Buckingham May 9th, 1911, and five children were born to them. May, aged 11, William, aged 9, Darline 8, Wesley, jr., 4 and Pansy, 17 months, besides his wife and the five children above named he is survived by an adopted sister, Mrs. Minnie Peters, of Sioux Falls, S.D., and a nephew and a niece, children of his brother, John, who died of flu while at Camp Dodge during the war. The children are now with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Cleaver, of Harrison county, Ia. Wesley was a member of Blair Lodge, I. O. O. F. and the burial service was conducted by his lodge brothers.

Enterprise 27 Nov 1924

FORMER BLAIR BOY MEETS TRAGIC DEATH

The remains of Wesley Wentworth of Wyoming was brought to Blair and funeral services held from the Weimerville home on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial made in the Blair cemetery. The deceased was working in a lumber camp out in Wyoming and was killed when a tree fell across his chest. He happened to be alone at the time and his body was not found until hours afterward. He was thirty-five years of age.

He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife and five children who were living in Wyoming and who made the sad journey to Blair with the body.

Readers of The Enterprise will recall that but a little over two months ago, his mother, Mrs. Hollis Wentworth, died suddenly, in a hotel in Colorado, while on her way to see her son and take one of his children home. This left Wesley as the only survivor of the happy family who lived for years near the Blair bridge.

The father died in 1919 and an only brother, John, while in camp during the World War.

His uncles, Charles and Newt Pardue came in from the west to assist with the funeral arrangements.

Mr. Wentworth had planned on returning to Blair in the near future and living in his mother’s home in Weimerville.

A large number of old friends and neighbors attended the funeral services, the Odd Fellows organization, of which he was a member, having charge.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~