Lonnie E TRAMMELL (VETERAN WWI)
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Submitted: 3/1/17 • Approved: 3/4/17 • Last Updated: 3/7/17 • R1178727-G0-S3
US Army
Company B 8 M.G. Battalion
World War I
March 18, 1888 - May 12, 1924
*Obituary
Gentry Journal—Advance
Friday, May 16, 1924
TRAMMELL, Lonnie E. - Gentry experienced an awful tragedy on Monday night about 9 o'clock on Main street when A.O. Siegmann shot and killed Lonnie Trammell with a 12-gauge single barrel shot gun in the Farmer Jones Cafe at which place he conducts a restaurant. It seems that Siegmann and his wife had been having more or less trouble for the past several months and she had threatened to leave him and on Monday had gotten out papers before Justice of the Peace Ellis to put him under a peace bond but the papers were not signed by her for some reason. Monday night Siegmann was seen abusing his wife in the restaurant by her father, Mr. Stout, and two or three men on the opposite side of the street, one of them being Lonnie Trammell, who together with the other men, immediately rushed into the restaurant to protect the woman when Siegmann, who had the gun sitting in the corner, grabbed it and fired a shot, the charge taking effect in Trammell's stomach on the left side. Siegmann immediately reloaded the gun and was going to shoot again when his wife placed her hand between the hammer and breech of the gun and prevented him doing so. After this happened she threw the gun outside into the yard. Dr. Clemmer was called and administered to the injured man as best he could, but advised them to take him to the hospital at Siloam for an operation. Trammell lived only a few minutes after he was put on the operating table. He realized that he was going and told the boys present what to do and to be sure and take care of his mother. Siegmann was taken to Bentonville by Sheriff Maples, who had been sent for in the meantime, and lodged in jail. It is reported that Siegmann had previously threatened the lives of his wife, father-in-law, S. Stout, and brother-in-law, O.B. Crites, and it is thought that he was insanely jealous of Mrs. Seigmann. Lonnie Trammell was 38 years of age and was born and reared in Benton county, served a year in the world war, part of the time in the trenches, and was gassed. Deceased is survived by 3 brothers and 2 sisters and many relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
*Obituary
Gentry Journal—Advance
Friday, May 16, 1924
Dona Trammell and wife of Granby, Mo. arrived here Tuesday morning to attend the funeral of his brother, Lonnie Trammell.
*Obituary
Benton County Record
Friday, May 16, 1924
Lonnie Trammell, a well known young man of Gentry, was shot and killed by Arthur Seigman(sic) in the latter's restaurant about 9 o'clock Monday evening. Trammell died an hour later in the City Hospital in Siloam Springs. He was about 35 years of age and the son of Mrs. Margie Trammell, a widow. The day before, so it is stated, Seigman quarreled with his wife and beat her. The quarrel was resumed Monday and Mrs. Seigman was preparing to return to her father's home. Seeing her at the door Monday evening her father, S. Stout, went in the little restaurant and asked Seigman, "What's the trouble?" "There is no trouble," said Seigman. It is then reported that Seigman struck his father-in-law and started to choke him. Thinking the old man was about to get badly treated, several men who were standing outside the door, including Trammell and Hugh Carl, came in to separate them. Seigman started for the kitchen which is divided from the front room by a wooden partition and the doorway covered by a curtain. A cloth screen stood in front of the doorway. While Seigman went around this screen, followed by Carl and others, Trammell went through the screen. As he did so Seigman grabbed a shotgun, which he had loaded that day, and shot Trammell. So close was Seigman to him that Trammell's clothing caught fire. As Trammell fell, shot in the stomach, Seigman broke the gun to reload it, His wife, who is a little woman, weighing only about 90 pounds, grabbed the gun and threw it out the back door. The murderer was arrested by Constable Bill Collins and Sheriff Maples and Deputy Gailey phoned for. Dr. Clemmer was called and dressed the wound and ordered the wounded man taken to the hospital in Siloam Springs. The Carpenter Brothers made a record time in taking him down. Trammell, who realized that his end was near, told them it was useless to take him there and asked that his brothers take good care of his mother. He died within 15 minutes after arriving at the hospital. When Sheriff Maples and Deputy Gailey arrived they found an angry mob of people gathered around the restaurant. Mayor Pitkin and the city council, who were meeting across the street, had been quieting the crowd until the officers arrived. Fearing violence against the prisoner, Maples and Gailey rushed Seigman to their car and hurried away. As one Gentry citizen told the Record representative, only the drop of a hat was needed to start the crowd into making short work of Seigman. The prisoner, who is in the county jail in Bentonville, has so far not been inclined to talk. Gentry citizens take the killing to heart as this is the first murder that has ever occurred in that little city since it was built. Funeral services for the dead man were held at the M.E. Church on Wednesday afternoon and was one of the largest funerals ever held there. The services were in charge of the Masons and about 75 members of this order were present from surrounding towns. Lonnie Trammell was about 37 years of age and was born about three miles north of Gentry. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.K. Trammell, his father dying about six years ago. At the breaking out of the World War he volunteered and was sent to France. He was badly gassed at the fight at Chateau-Thierry. He was a quiet and peaceful young man and did not know the meaning of fear. He was highly thought of by all who knew him. Besides his mother he is survived by two children - a daughter aged 14 and a son 12 years old; 3 brothers, John Trammell of Granby, Mo.; Henry Trammell of Mt. Vernon, Wash. and Jay Trammell, who lives in Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Will Whiteside of Gentry and Mrs. Arrie Fox in Montana. A host of relatives and friends are left to mourn his loss. Seigman was the son of Charles Seigman, who came to Benton county years ago and took up a claim in Tanyard Hollow north of Bentonville. He moved to Oklahoma about 30 years ago. Arthur Seigman and his brother returned to Benton county and bought a farm on Flint creek a few years ago. Last fall he moved to Gentry and bought the Farmer Jones restaurant owned by Bob Grimmett.
*Obituary
Gentry Journal—Advance
Friday, May 23, 1924
Lonnie E. Trammell, son of L.K. and Margaret Trammell, was born near Gentry, Ark. March 18, 1888 and died May 12, 1924, age 36 years, 1 month and 24 days. He volunteered for military service in Billings, Mont. and entered the U.S. Army during the late World war and saw service over seas for 12 months with Co. B, 9th M.G. Batt. While in the front line trenches as a member of the machine gun company he was wounded and gassed, so felt and saw the real tragedy of the most horrible war known in the world's history. After the close of the war, having received his honorable discharge, he returned to his home town and place of his boyhood days and here as a worthy pensioner spent the remaining short years of his life. He was a member of the American legion and of the Masonic Lodge. He is survived by his aged mother, 2 sisters, Mrs. Will Whiteside of Gentry, Ark. and Mrs. Tom Fox of Idaho, 3 brothers, Jay Trammell of Bellingham, Wash., Henry Trammell of Mt. Vernon, Wash. and Jonah Trammell of Granby, Mo., also 2 children, a boy and a girl, and a large circle of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. B.L. Harris and the Masonic order from the Methodist church May 14th at 3 p.m. and interment was made in Flint Creek cemetery.
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