Arrowsmith, Reno Cleo

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• Reference Number: ARRO.R001
• _FGRAVE: 91921185

Notes:

Taken from the Grand Rapids Press- Aug, 24, 1933- Pg 8

DEAF MAN KILLED BY PENNSY TRAIN

Reno Arrowsmith, Detroit, Victim; Mute Companion Jumps to Safety.

-- Reno Arrowsmith, 35, deaf and mute, who resided in Detroit, was killed about 8:30 Thursday morning when struck by Pennsylvania passenger train No. 537 while he was walking with another man who could not hear or speak, Clayton Mills, also of Detroit, near Fisher Station.
-- Arrowsmith and his companion had been in Grand Rapids and were planning to board a freight train for Chicago to visit Arrowsmith's wife.
-- The companion said he did not see the approaching train, but leaped from the tracks when he felt the vibrations. Mills was too far away from Arrowsmith to warn him; although the latter apparently felt the vibrations just before he was struck because he attempted to leap from the tracks.
-- The body was taken to the Clarence D. Sullivan mortuary.

Note:
Reno was one of the original founders of DAD-
Detroit Association of the Deaf Club-1916
- DAD is one of the oldest U.S. established deaf organizations based in Detroit, Michigan.

Reno married Rice, Elsie Marie in 1923. Elsie (daughter of Rice, Matthew Everett and Brown, Catherine 'Cassie') was born on 22 Oct 1904 in Zenith, Wayne County, Illinois; died on 27 Jun 1949 in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Arrowsmith, Winston Dane was born in 1925; died in 2013.
2. Arrowsmith, Charles Reno was born in 1926; died in 2009.