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Preston Floyd

Preston Floyd Dies In Mine
The Soper Democrat – April 17, 1947
Transcribed by Ron Henson

Funeral services for Preston Floyd, age 37, will be held at the Soper Methodist Church, Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W.E. McCartney, pastor, assisted by Rev. J.B. Ward, of Hugo. Burial will follow in the Soper Cemetery.

Floyd was killed in a fall down a shaft in the Mayflower Ore Mines at Silverton, Colo., Saturday morning about 9 o’clock. Few details are known here of his death, information being that the accident occurred soon after he began work and that a co-worker fell 250 feet in a shaft in the mine. Both were killed instantly.

Preston was born in 1909 at Hugo. He was reared and educated in this county, attending school at Soper for several years. He farmed east of Soper for some time before going to Silverton ten years ago.

He is survived by his wife, the former Miss “Bill” Willingham, of Soper; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Floyd, of Hugo; three sisters, Mrs. J.R. Sexton, of Hugo; Mrs. E.K. Waugh, of Hobart; and Mrs. J.C. Watts, of Chickasha; two brothers, J.C. Floyd, Hugo, and Marshall Floyd, of Silverton.

He had been a member of the Methodist church at Kent since boyhood.