Submitted by Lester LeMay
Funeral services for Sam Jackson, thirty-year-old Arizona Power company lineman, electrocuted at Poland Junction yesterday, are to be conducted at two o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Lester Ruffner chapel, it was announced today.
Burial is to follow in Phoenix, the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Jackson.
Jackson had hold of a guy wire when it came in contact with a 44,000 volt line. Death practically was instantaneous because his heart action was stopped immediately and could not be stimulated again though artifical resuscitation was attempted for an hour or more by his co-workers on the job.
He was born August 11, 1902, in Caldwell, Nebr., and about seven years ago obtained his first employment with the power company "on the rim," as employee call it, meaning in one of the Verde Valley hydro plants. He mother was in Prescott when the accident happened. A sister, Mrs. J.E. LeMay of 614 Lincoln ave, with whom Jackson had been residing, was preparing to move to Winslow today, where her husband, has been transferred by the Santa Fe. Jackson, therefore was getting ready to move his lodging to the home of Dr. _____ M. Tolle. Friends said Jackson and Miss Flo Moyer, Prescott public school teacher, were engaged to be married toward the end of this year.
Yesterday's electrocution was the first time since 1925 when two employees in the Childs hydro plant died from that cause. Jackson was the twelfth or fourteenth person electrocuted in the Arizona Power system since it started toward the close of the last century.
Elvin R. Jackson, a brother, living in Phoenix, was in Prescott today making the funeral arrangements.
Submitted by Lester LeMay
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Jackson, Henry C., uncle of Elvin Jackson and Ester Jackson Le May: brother-in-law of Rosa R. Jackson, passed away Monday. Funeral services were conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the chapel of A.H. McLellan Mortuary, with the Rev. R.E. Elmore officiating. Independent Order of Odd Fellows will have charge of the services at the cemetery.