Saturday, June 11, 2022

William Goforth, 22, Killed in Fall From Smokestack, June 11, 1922

William Goforth Is Killed in Fall

Statesville, June 10—William Goforth, aged 22, of this city, while painting a smokestack for the Grier Cotton Mill Company in Wilkesboro, fell from the stack to the roof, a distance of 56 feet, breaking almost every bone in his body. Young Goforth was rushed to the Long Sanatorium here, where it was found that he was beyond help, and he died this morning at 1:30 o’clock.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C.S. Cashwell from the home of Mrs. John Goforth, mother of the deceased, in West Statesville, this afternoon, and burial was in Oakwood cemetery.

Mr. Goforth is survived by his wife and one child, his wife residing in Winston-Salem.

From page 3 of the Goldsboro News, June 11, 1922

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