Floyd Carl Cragg

• General Notes
  • Floyd Carl Cragg was born 18 Jan 1893 in Spiney, Kansas, the son of
    George Elmer and Belle (Enlow) Cragg. Floyd married Lena Fay Wynn on 07
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Jul 1917 in Manhattan, Kansas. Lena was born 24 Nov 1894 in Allen County,
    Kansas, the daughter of Harrison Elsworth and Emma Jane (Sharon) Wynn.
    To this union 6 children were born - two girls and four boys.
    Published Manhattan Mercury-ChronicleApril 23, 1944
    ACCIDENT KILLS FLOYD C. CRAGG
    HIGHWAY PATROLMAN REPORTS LOCALPAINTER TIRED TO PASS CAR ON CURVE
    Funeral Services Will Be Held Tuesday WithInterment at Pleasant Valley
    Cemetery
    Floyd C. Cragg, 40, 723 Bluemont, waskilled instantly at 6 p.m. Friday
    on U.S. Highway 40, 1.2 miles west of Wamego when he was returning to
    Manhattan from Topeka and, according to report ofHighway Patrolman Roy
    Phillips, attempted to pass another car on the curve.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clark A. Thorp, of Leavenworth, witnessed the accident. It
    
    
    
    
    
    
    wastheir car he was attempting to pass when he seemed to lose control of
    the automobile, and it went onto the left shoulder of the road to scrape
    the guard rails, return to the pavement and across the road into the
    ditch on the rightside. The car turned over and struck a tree broadside.
    It appeared, Patrolman Phillips said in his report, that Cragg was killed
    instantly. He received acrushed chest and skull fractures and severe
    lacerations of the face.
    Cragg was taken to Wamego in a Stewart ambulance and the scene of the
    accident was visited at once by Frank Ewing, sheriff of Pottawatomie
    county. Patrolman Phillips was called at 6:55 p.m. and arrived at 7:20
    p.m.
    Cragg had lived inthis vicinity for 37 years. He was a private painting
    
    
    
    
    
    
    contractor.
    He is survived by his wife, of the home; by a son, John in the armed
    forces in England; by Mrs. Helen Johnson, 408 Colorado, a daughter; a
    son, George E. Cragg 1610 Houston; by Gretta and Wynn of the home, and by
    a brother Charles B. Cragg814 Fremont, and a sister, Mrs Florence
    McInteer, route 3 Manhattan.
    Funeral services wil be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday from the Burliew-Cowan
    funeral chapelwith the Rev. A. L. Wright in charge. Interment is to be
    at the Pleasant Valley cemetery, Zeandale.