FLOYD HOUSE
Date of Accident:  Jan. 30, 1918
[a/k/a Roy House]

The above article was published in the FARMINGTON TIMES newspaper in early February of 1918. 

FLOYD HOUSE FELL TO THE BOTTOM
OF SHAFT AT ELVINS
[Published in DESLOGE SUN, Friday, February 1, 1918]

     Floyd House, age 17 years and employed by the Federal Lead Co., as a shoveler in the mines, fell from the cage landing at No. 12 shaft to the bottom on Wednesday morning at the close of the shift.

     He and other miners had been brought to the surface on the cage and we are informed that the cage went a few inches beyond the ground level and House upon stepping to the ground slipped on the ice and fell back into the shaft.  His body was in a bad shape when recovered as the depth of the shaft is something over 500 feet.  He was taken to the undertaking parlor of Joe Diemer in Elvins where an inquest was held.

     We understand that he had been working at No. 12 about three weeks. 

     He  was the son of Ab House who lives about three miles west of Bonne Terre. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  Floyd Milton Roe House (a/k/a Roy House) is buried at Germania Cemetery west of Bonne Terre, Missouri.  Cemetery listing gives his date of birth as September 26, 1900, and his date of death is given as January 30, 1918.  Listing indicates that he was son of L. A. House.  I am told that his father's name was  Lisbon Adam House.   According to Germania Cemetery listing, Libson Adam House was married to Lula (Gann) House on Sept. 27, 1894;  Libson was son of Milton B. House and Edith House; and  Milton B. House was son of Milton House and Isabell (Glore) House.