Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 19, 1928, page 3
Former Residents Funeral is Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Daisy Ainsworth,50 years old, who
died in Amarillo of blood poisoning will be held at 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon in the Street & Draper funeral home.
Rev. H. H. Fisher will conduct the services. Burial will be
in Fairlawn cemetery.
Mrs. Ainsworth was the wife of E. N. Ainsworth, former vice
president of the Alexander Drug Company. The family moved to
Amarillo several months ago after a ...
Besides her husband Mrs. Ainswoth is survived by five
children, Rebecca, Ernest, William, Johan and ....
January 4, 1915, pg 8
Flames in Clothing Fanned by Wild
Flight Through House Cause Death of Mrs. Ainsworth,
Husband is Injured
... Mrs. Ainsworth was unconscious.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ainsworth, 41 years old, 1217 North
Lottie avenue, died Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at
the University hospital from sever burns received
Saturday morning when a cotton kimono she was
wearing caught fire from a gas grate in the dining
room of her home. Practically every inch of the
surface of her body above the knees had been burned.
Her husband, Neal Ainsworth,
secretary of the Alexander Drug company was terribly
burned on the hands while attempting to subdue the
flames that enveloped Mrs. Ainsworth, and her
sister, Miss Daily Knowles, received painful but not
serious injuries.
With a flowing cotton kimono, throw
over other clothes, Mrs. Ainsworth had gone
downstairs early in the morning to prepare breakfast
for the family. She was working around the dining
table when the kimono, bushing past the logs in the
grate, blazed up behind. She did not know for a few
moments her clothes were a fire, but soon felt the
heat on her back.
Screaming, "Help I'm afire," she ran
toward the back of the house. Her husband and
sister, believing she said the house was afire,
started downstairs. Midway on the stairs there was a
landing with one stairway leading to the rear and
the other to the front of the house. Ainsworth and
Miss Knowles chose the front way and Mrs.
Ainsworth, who had started to meet them went up from
the rear, missing them.
Flames fanned to Greater Fury
Upon finding nobody on he second
floor of the house the frantic woman with the fire
already blazing all over her, fanned the flames into
great fury by darting downstairs.
She was met at the bottom of the
stairway by her husband and sister. using his bare
hands and a small child's coat Ainsworth attached
the fire and with the help of Miss Knowles beat an
smothered it in a few minutes. But the fire already
had horribly burned Mrs. Ainsworth from the knees
up. Nearly al the hair had been burned from her
head. Mrs. Ainsworth also had been burned
internally, inhaling the flames into her lungs as
she breathed.
Funeral Services Tuesday
Funeral services will be conducted
from the residence Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock,
Rev. R. A. Chase, pastor of the First Methodist
church of which Mrs. Ainsworth was a member,
officiating. Interment will be in Fairlawn cemetery.
Three children, daughter 2
years old and boys aged 8 and 10, survive Mrs.
Ainsworth aside from the husband and sister.
The Ainsworth family is well known
in Oklahoma City. Mr. Ainsworth is a 89er. He has
been connected the the Alexander drug company since
it was founded.
Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 14, 1940, pg 14
Arrangements for the funeral of Neal Ainsworth,
69-year-old veteran of the drug business in Oklahoma
City, are pending at. the Street and Draper funeral
home. Services probably will be Monday with burial
in Fairlawn.
Ainsworth died Friday at the home of a son, John,
2129 Northwest Twenty-seventh street, after a long
illness. For 27 years he was associated with the
Alexander Drug Co., leaving in 1926 to establish the
Ainsworth Wholesale Drug Co. in Amarillo. He retired
from business and returned to Oklahoma City two
years ago.
Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 16, 1924, pg 60
"Neal" Ainsworth With the Company Since 1900
E. N. Ainsworth became connected with the company in
July 1900, was given charge of the order floor which
position he occupied for a few years when he was
made a buyer. His ability in handling men, his
through knowledge of the drug business made him
successful in all position he has occupied with the
company since his connection with it. In 1914 he was
elected secretary of the company which position he
still retains.
Neal is also a successful and conservation lawyer.
He came to Oklahoma at the opening in 1889, filed on
a claim south of the city adjoining Capitol Hill on
the south. His father and mother lived on this claim
and after their death the property was divided
between him and his sister, both of whom still own
the property.
Mr. Ainsworth is a Shriner and Knight Templar also a
very loyal member of the Rotary club as well as
director of the Chamber of Commerce.
He has been a consistent supporter of the policies
of the company and... The management and all
employees of the company hold him in the highest...
follows is the only mention of Harry Ainsworth I
found [09-16-2017]
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