Vancleave - Samuel M. - 1913
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, 15 December 1913, p 1
Hundreds attend funeral services Sermons delivered by Rev. B. E. Antrobus Baptist Church crowded as services are held for two dead lineman Bodies of Samuel M. Vancleave and John W. Sidener laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery. With the auditorium of the First Baptist church crowded to the doors and with a throng of at least two hundred persons remaining on the outside of the church, funeral services were held for Samuel M. Vancleave and John Warner Sidener, the two Ben-Hur linemen killed in a fall with a broken tension pole. The service for Vancleave was begun at one forty-five and was followed those for Sidener at three-fifteen. Both services were conducted by Rev. B.E. Antrobus, pastor of the First Baptist church. The sermons delivered over the caskets bearing the bodies of the two well known young men were of a nature appealing strongly to the host of their friends present at the services. The Baptist Church quartet composed of Charles Badgley, Ray Dorsey, F.M. Surface and W.H. Slagle, sang during both services. William Vancleave of Marion and Lambert Vancleave of St. Louis, brothers of Samuel, together with Bert Vancleave, an uncle of the deceased, Ray Lucas, Charles O'Connor and Benjamin Oswalt, served as pallbearers for the younger of the two men whose tragic deaths cast sorrow throughout the city. Sidener's body was placed in the grave by the members of the Baptist quartet and Harry Robertson and Charles Sanders.
Note: son of James Thomas Vancleave