Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Royston, John M.  1915
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Fruitland Banner 4-23-1915
Fruitland Banner
Fruitland, Idaho
Friday, April 23, 1915
 
GORED TO DEATH BY ANGRY BULL

J. M. Royston, A Prominent Fruitland Stock Raiser Is Killed by Prize Animal

In sight of members of his family, J. M. Royston was gored to death by his 
prize Jersey bull last Friday evening about 6:15.  One of the animal's horns 
pierced the groin severing an artery, causing death before medical aid could 
be procured.

It seems that Mr. Royston had not been in the habit of handling the bull, but 
there being no other male members of the family at home he started to put the 
animal into the barn for the night when the bull charged him while in the 
narrow passage, running from the corral to the barn throwing him violently 
against the side of a barn where he was fatally gored before Mrs. Royston and 
her daughter, Clara, succeeded in rescuing the dying man from the onslaughts 
of the thoroughly infuriated animal.

During the excitement of keeping the animal from again reaching its prostrate 
victim several minutes elapsed before a doctor was called. Although Dr. Wright 
cranked up his car and made the two-mile run in a little over four minutes it 
was too late.

The funeral, held Thursday afternoon at the home, was one of the largest and 
most impressive ever held in this section. Rev. G. W. Barnes, of Payette, 
conducted the services on the spacious lawn where several hundred people had 
assembled. The remains were then taken to Payette, where burial took place.

The deceased was 60 years of age and leaves a wife and 11 children, 6 boys and 
5 girls, 5 of which live the home.

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