The Meriden Message Jefferson County Friday January 9, 1931 Wm. Langdon Victim Of Lockjaw From Small Wound. William LANGDON, 27, died at Bell Memorial hospital at Kansas City, last Monday morning, a victim of tenanus. Several days previous to his death he cut his hand slightly with a rusty knife while sharpening an axe. Paying no attention to the small wound he found infection had suddenly set in, and lockjaw resulted. He was taken to the hospital but in spite of all efforts he died Monday morning. His death is the third in the Langdon family in the last year and a half. Tragedy first struck the Langdons in May, 1929, when Jewell Langdon, 16, a sister, died from pneumonia. In December, 1929, the father, O.E. Langdon, contracted pneumonia and died Dec. 20th. William's death makes the third. He has been living on the home place, three miles northwest of Oskaloosa, with his mother, farming. Funeral services were held at Dunavant church, conducted by Rev. C.Cray Jones, Methodist pastor at Oskaloosa. Burial was in Spring Grove cemetery.