Union Cemetery

Palazon, John


BORN IN: Spain
DIED: 8/21/1923
AGED: 32
CAUSE OF DEATH: hit by train
DEATH LOCATION: Belmont

OCCUPATION: salesman

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
  • 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
  • 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
  • 1912 The Titanic sank
  • 1920 Prohibition begins
  • 1920 Women get to vote
  • 1920 The Roaring 20's
OBITUARY ---------------

JOHN PALAZON

Redwood City Standard

August 23, 1923

John Palazon, a drygoods peddler, with a small store at 800 Main Street, this city, was instantly killed when the Ford automobile which he was driving was struck by a San Francisco bound Southern Pacific Passenger train No. 66, at one of the grade crossing between Beresford and Belmont Tuesday afternoon..... interment in Union Cemetery ...

Palazon leaves a widow and a teo year old daughter. The deceased and his wife and father and mother resided in Redwood city for about ten years. Last year the four left for Spain to visit their old home and the parents remained in the old country.

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