Warren County Iowa Genealogical Society

 

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    Henry McKINNIS, Jr.

    Henry McKINNIS and his three sons John, Henry Jr., and Billie Ted were killed at the saw mill southeast of Lacona on April 1, 1893, the result of an exploding boiler heard miles away. The gravestones, at Mt. Zion Cemetery, are all joined and cut from one marble slab. (Source - Chronology of the early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and John FORD sometime around 1980.)