{"id":6991,"date":"2013-12-10T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:01:31","slug":"tombstone-tuesday-walter-t-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/tombstone-tuesday-walter-t-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tombstone Tuesday — Walter T. Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miles Tombstone, Side 1<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Miles<\/a>

Walter T. Miles, 1866-1933
Annie A. (Aitken) Miles, 1871-1933
John A., Their son, 1893-1894<\/p><\/div>\n

11 December 1933<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workman at Mill Dies From Injuries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walter Thomson Miles, 67, of 127 Beech St., died yesterday morning in the Holyoke Hospital of injuries suffered when he was crushed\u00a0 by a 3500-lb. roll of paper in an elevator at the Whiting No. 2 Mill Friday afternoon.Mr. Miles was born in Scotland, coming to this country 56 years ago and Holyoke 18 years ago, most of the time being a master mechanic at the Whiting mill.\u00a0 He was a past noble grand of Taconic Lodge of Odd Fellows, Great Barrington; member of Mt. Tom Lodge of Masons and a Knight Templar, Clan McLaren, Order of Scottish Clans, the Steam Operating Engineer’s union and the First Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n

His wife, Mrs. Annie (Aitken) Miles died less than a year ago.\u00a0 He leaves six sons, Edwin, Clarence, John, Nelson, Robert and Gordon Miles, all of this city; one sister, Mrs. Sarah Simpson of this city; three brothers, James, George and Gideon Miles of this city, and several grandchildren.<\/p>\n

The funeral will be held in the First Presbyterian Church,\u00a0 Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. Dr. John Alison officiating.\u00a0 Burial will be in Forestdale Cemetery.\u00a0 The body may be seen at the Alger Funeral Home until the time of the funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  11 December 1933 Workman at Mill Dies From Injuries Walter Thomson Miles, 67, of 127 Beech St., died yesterday morning in the Holyoke Hospital of injuries suffered when he was crushed\u00a0 by a 3500-lb. roll of paper in an elevator at the Whiting No. 2 Mill Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,7,10,609],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}