This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FIELDS, CLEVENGER, BOYTS, MCDANIEL, ONETH, UTT, BROTHERS, WARD Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1MB.2ACI/1939.1 Message Board Post: Newspaper; Joplin (Missouri) Globe, Sunday July 24, 1921. FATHER DIES ON DAY SON'S FUNERAL IS HELD: Charles Henry Fields succombs to death at home near Webb City, Missouri as services for his son accident victim in Wichita, KS. July 23, 1921 funeral services for Kirk FIELDS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry FIELDS of near this city, and for Howard UTT of Wichita, KS each 20 years old who were run over by a Santa Fe passenger train leaving Wichita July 14th, were held Monday afternoon in Wichita. It was learned here today by FIELDS' mother that burial was in Mission Cemetery, both men were buried in the UTT family plot. FIELDS left Webb City several months ago and joined UTT, intending to follow the wheat harvest in Kansas. In leaving Wichita at 2:45 thursday morning July 14th. They were killed and their bodies mutilated along the tracks. They were identified by UTT's wife and a sister of FIELDS' fiance of Wichita. Upon first discovery it was beleived that the men had be! en slain by robbers and their bodies placed on the tracks. the Coroners jury however thought their deaths were an accident. FIELDS is survied by his mother and five sisters and brothers but because of his fathers illness they were unable to attend the funeral Monday. FIELDS' father Charles Henry Fields 43 years of age, died at 3:00 this afternoon. Besides intimate family he is survived by three sisters Mrs. Maggie LARKINS and Mrs. Emma CLAUSSEN of Springfield, Missouri and Mrs. Lizzie WARD of South Dakota and one brother John FIELDS of Springfield, MO. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 tuesday afternoon from the residence to Forest Park Cemetery in Joplin, MO. ----end---- Please contact: Mary K. Ward, 1432 Yeardley Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23225; ph 804-232-9338; Note: The FIELDS family living in 1921 believed that the activity of the coronor's jury was suspect and that the deaths of the young men certainly were suspicious.