Funeral services for Daniel Jedediah (Jeddie) Hammon, 40, sheepman of Roy and Ogden, who was killed late Saturday near Morgan by a bullet accidentally fired from the gun of his brother-in-law, P.J. Crossley, of Salt Lake City, will be conducted Wednesday at two p.m. in the L.D.S. Roy ward chapel by Bishop Reuben P. Greenwood.
Friends may call at Lindquist & Sons’ funeral chapel this afternoon and evening and at the family home, 1411 Washington avenue, Tuesday and also Wednesday until one o’clock. Burial will be in Roy cemetery.
The casket will be opened in the Roy chapel preceding the funeral.
Military honors under direction of the American Legion, Herman Baker post, will be offered.
Crossley, mistook Hammon for a deer, he told officers. Hammon had lost the red handkerchief he had been wearing on his head for safety. A coroner’s jury of O.S. Kilburn, Lawrence Porter and J. London, called Saturday night by Sheriff Thomas W. Fry of Morgan county, found the shooting to be accidental.
Hammon had been running a band of sheep south of Morgan, near Porterville. The accident occurred on Phil Shop mountain, near there.
Mr. Hammon was born March 3, 1895, in Preston, Idaho, a son of Daniel Jedediah and Annie Hansen Hammon. He moved to Roy with his parents in 1905 and four years ago moved to Ogden.
In 1920, he married Helena Kippin in the L.D.S. Salt Lake City temple. He was a member of the Ogden Tenth ward. In Roy, he was Y.M.M.I.A. assistant superintendent. He was a World War veteran, serving in naval training stations at San Francisco and Norfolk, Va.
Surviving are his widow; six sons and daughters, Annie, Daniel, Katherine, Sally, Wanda, and Jeddie Hammon, Ogden; five sisters, Mrs. Claudine Crossley, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Annie Robinson, Clinton; Mrs. Lelah Talbot and Mrs. Rose Lee, Roy, and Mrs. L.J. Neservy, Dietrich, Idaho; a brother, Heber Grant Hammon, Salt Lake City, and his mother of Roy.
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STANDARD EXAMINER OBITUARIES Monday, October 28, 1935