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- Camden Man Killed By Log At West Alex Sawmill
Camden, Ohio – A Camden man, Gerald L. Wilmot, 37, 205 South Lafayette St., died Saturday afternoon from injuries suffered while unloading logs at the Green Saw Mill, one mile south of West Alexandria.
Preble County Coroner Dr. Richard F. Siehl said Wilmot died from head injuries and that death was instantaneous. Wilmot also had a fractured right leg.
Wilmot and his son-in-law, Kenneth Shannon, 19, also of 205 South Lafayette st., were hauling logs from the Horace Kuikendoll farm, south of here, to the saw mill.
Shannon told Preble County sheriff’s authorities that Wilmot had released a chain boom tied around the logs on a flatbed truck. One of the logs rolled off the truck and struck Wilmot in the head, knocking him to the ground.
Wilmot, also a former Eaton resident, was a veteran of the Korean War and an employe of Frigidaire Corp., in Dayton. He did logging in his spare time.
Survivors include the widow, Doris Jean; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Wilmot of Camden; three daughters, Mrs. Pamela Denise Shannon of Camden and Kimberly Ann and Melissa Jean, both at home; one grandchild; seven sisters, Mrs. Vera Whitt of Middletown, Mrs. Reba Apple of Westchester, Mrs. Marie Lunsford and Mrs. Anna Bell Adams, both of Blanchester; Mrs. Ruby Rieger of Farmersville, Mrs. Donna Roby of Kokomo, Ind., and Mrs. Martha Gabbard of Camden; six brothers, James Cornett of Shoals, Ins., Benton Wilmot of Torrence, Calif.; Grand and Charles Wilmot, both of Middletown, and Earl and Franklin Wilmot, both of Trenton.
Services for Mr. Wilmot will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barnes Funeral Home in Eaton with Rev. Daryl Lane officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill Union Cemetery in Eaton. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.
Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana. Sunday, 1 November 1970.
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