WE NEVER FORGET: Lon Amos Millsap Who Lost His Life in Freedom’s Cause, Kansas City General Strike of 1918

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Pray for the dead
and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones

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WNF, Kansas City, MO, Lon Amos Millsap, March 29, 1918
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Lon Amos Millsap, Labor Martyr
Kansas City General Strike, March 29, 1918

On March 29, 1918, Lon Amos Millsap, striking laundry truck driver, gave up his life in Kansas City Research Hospital. He died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The kept press claims that the strikers had been rioting (throwing rocks) when fired upon by armed company guards at the Globe Laundry two days earlier, March 27th, the first day of the Kansas City General Strike.

Lon Amos Millsap was born October 28, 1885, in Platte County, Missouri. At the time of his death he was 32 years old, single and a striking laundry driver. He is buried at Mount Washington Cemetery at Independence, Missouri.

M. L. Millsap, address: 2728 Brooklyn, provided the personal information for the death certificate, and was most likely a relative.

Buried in the same cemetery is the mother of Lon Millsap, Nancy Belle Heller Millsap, who died on July 27, 1927, at age 76. His father was John S. Millsap, date of death not known.

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Hellraisers Journal: Kansas City Striker, Lon Amos Millsap, Dies in Hospital from Gunshot Wound to Abdomen

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Pray for the dead
and fight like hell for living.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday April 2, 1918
Kansas City, Missouri – Lon Amos Millsap, Labor Martyr

Rose for Labor Martyrs, Sc Victory Choir Red Flag

Lon Amos Millsap, striking laundry truck driver, gave up his life in Kansas City Research Hospital on Friday March 29th. He died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The kept press claims that the strikers were rioting when they were fired upon by armed guards at the Globe Laundry. Two other strikers were injured but are expected to live.

The following articles tell of the shooting and of the death of Brother Millsap.

From The Fort Scott Tribune of March 28, 1918
-Inset added is from The Leavenworth Post of March 31, 1918:

TROOPS TO CURB STRIKE.
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RIOTING IN KANSAS CITY STRIKE,
WHICH IS SPREADING SLOWLY.
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THREE WOUNDED YESTERDAY
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Strikers Wrecked Laundries and Restaurants,
and Stoned Street Cars;
Not So Many Disorders Today.
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