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About Charles B. Bilderback:
Quotation from journal of Judge Anderson McFall: "Charley Bilderback came in home to his fathers
H.L.Bilderback near Phillipsburg Mo from Joplin Mo Decr l0th l90l". "Charley B. Bilderback and Bertha
M. Caffey was married Wedensday May 27th 1908" "Charles Bilderback wife first baby a boy borned June
18th l9l0".
About Bertha (Bert) M. Caffey:
Listed in the roster of members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg, Laclede Co, Mo
About Kenneth Bilderback:
Quoting Death Notice: MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING Kenneth Bilderback, Prominent Conway Farmer, Is
Victim. CONWAY, Mo, July 21--Kenneth Bilderback, 25, prominent young Conway farmer, was Instantly
killed about 6:30 o'clock Monday morning when lightning struck a silo on his farm. No bruises were found
on his body and it Is believed the shock killed him. His father, Charles Bilderback, was inside the
barn and was knocked down by the shock. He could not remember what happened, but said when he recovered
consciousnes he was outside the barn. The silo and barn are equipped with electric lights from a Delco
system and it is thought that the electricity followed the wires of the system from the silo through
the barn. The electrical milkers were going and one of the cows was killed by the shock. Young Bilderback
was about 15 OR 30 feet from the barn when struck. It is thought that the electricity may have followed
the wires to the foundation of the barn. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Young Builderback had
been married about two years and had a 3-weeks-old baby. Besides his wife, he is survived by his parents,
a grandfather, and two brothers-in-law, Fred Rader of Springfield and Clarence Rader of Bolivar. Funeral
services will be in charge of the W. E. Holman Funeral home at Conway. The Builderback farm is about
31/2 miles east of Conway and is one of the best in the Co, The family is a pioneer one.
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