Sunday, January 29, 2017

Lewis Jenkinson Frazee - 23

DEADLY CURRENT TAKES LIFE OF L. J. FRAZEE TUESDAY MORNING

Struck by a powerful current from a broken wire carrying a heavy voltage of electricity, Lewis Jenkinson Frazee was instantly killed Tuesday morning while at work doing irrigation work in a field of tomatoes on the Ronsse ranch at Bonsall.  With his brother, William Frazee, and W. E. Borden he was unloading pipe from a wagon when one end of the pipe which he was lifting came in contact with a high voltage wire which had broken during the night and had not been noticed.  The powerful current passed through his body and death was instantaneous. The same current passing along a barbed wire fence killed a mule of the team the men were driving as the animal touched the wire with its body.

The deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Frazee, well known residents of Woreland Park at Moosa and was 32 years of age. He was a school teacher by profession and had been in charge of the Moosa school until this year when he had decided to put in the year in outdoor work.  He is survived by his wife, Gertrude, and two sons, Roderick aged 4, and Malcolm, aged 2.


Blade Tribune – October 1, 1925

note: I am including this photo although it hasn't been identified at being of Jenks because at the time the photo was taken (circa 1909) Jenks was 15 or 16 years old, I have heard that he dressed as an Indian in the Pamoosa Peace Pipe Pageant, and even if he isn't the boy on top of the Castle, with the number of children at the base, he is most likely someone in the picture.  The photo is from the State Library's collection.

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