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                      Funeral Service were held at the Episcopal Church for Kenneth LeRoy Crips, who was fatally injured in a sawmill accident on Carter mountain. Crips was married to Miss Bessie Billings; he had a daughter, Elaine, 15 and a son Bennie, 12. 
Crips had just sold the sawmill and was cleaning up the rough lumber at the site of the mill when the accident occurred. He had planned to retire from the lumber business and give more time to his transportation business.
   According to the story from the Wilson family, Leroy, as he has called, was adopted out of the family at an early age to a Benjamin William Crips family. This Ben Crips first wife ran off with the ice cream man according to personal conversation. I have had with his son, my cousin, Ben Crips a few years ago. The older Ben Crips married bertha Crow and they lived in Ottumwa, IA at the time, Cousin Ben believes the older Ben Crips died in Billings, MT, 25 Dec 1937 and is buried in Cody, WY. Cousin Ben also indicated that his father Leroy has an illegitimate child born in 1936 named Kenneth Leroy Dowdy and the mother was a babysitter for Cousin Ben. The baby was born in Denver and is/was a Lutheran in minister in Alto, IL.
Leroy Crips was killed near Cody, WY when a log flew out of a saw mill and struck him in the chest.
His obituary, dated 25 Aug 1943 (probably form the Cody paper) states Kenneth Leroy Crips was born May 17, 1903 at Ottumwa, Iowa, moving to Wyoming tin 1913. He married Bessie Billings, September, 19, 1925 and two children Elaine and Bennie were born to the union. The family homesteaded on Southfork (Shoshone River in 1926 until 1930 when they removed to Cody where Mr. Crips engaged in the transfer and trucking business.
Sometime later he acquired a sawmill on the upper Southfork and it was there the accident occurred that resulted in his death.