Valley County ID Archives Obituaries.....Nock, John December 11, 1945
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The Cascade News, Dec. 14, 1945, pg. 1
Pioneer Taken By Death
	John Nock, long time resident of Long Valley, passed away in Cascade 
Monday afternoon. He had undergone a leg amputation several months ago, and had 
recovered from the operation. However he had a serious kidney infection which 
caused his death.
	John Nock was born in Indiana on Nov. 24, 1870 and spent the first 
thirty years of his lofe traveling about in many parts of the United States, 
spending considerable of the time in Montana and Woyming. In 1899 he was 
married in Arkansas to May Irwin, to which union two children were born, one of 
whom, Harry Nock of Cascade, survives him. In 1900 he homesteaded in Oklahoma, 
shortly after the strip opened.
	He came to Idaho in 1902 settling on Brownlee, near Sweet, where for 
about five years he was employed in a sawmill. He then moved to Long Valley 
where he has since made his home, with the exception of a short sojourn to 
Canada. He expected to homestead in that country, but when he found he had to 
swear allegiance to the king, it was more than he could swallow and he returned 
to Long Valley.
	In Cascade, in the early days he operated a picture show, ran a 
thresher and farmed some. Also at one time he carried mail for Sollie Callender 
between Emmett and Van Wyck. He was also city marshall in Cascade. In 1927 he 
spent a year in Honolulu with George and Bud Nock.
	During his residence in Wyoming, he served as a deputy sheriff and was 
in a possee which surrounded and killed four murderers and cattle thieves who 
refused to surrender. In this fracas he was shot in the leg, but not seriously.
	In his lifetime he barely missed two fortunes in oil. In Oklahoma, the 
land which he homesteaded and subsequently sold for a pittance developed into a 
rich oil field. On another occasion he planned on buying a piece of land in 
Montana. However, the land was so full of peat, that, as he stated, "it 
wouldn't even raise grass," and he wouldn't have anything to do with it. It 
later developed to be the center of Montana's oil fields.
	He is survived by his son, Harry, of Cascade; two half-brothers, George 
of Cascade and Charlie of Woodland, Calif.; four grandchildren and two great 
grandchildren, and many nephews and neices. He was a quaint and loveable 
character, and in his wanderings and his long residence here, made a great many 
friends who will deeply regret to hear of his passing.
	Funeral services are being held in Cascade at 2 o'clock this ___day 
afternoon, and interment will be in Margaret cemetery.

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(The left side of obituary was along the fold of the paper, and was not filmed 
completely. The spelling has not been corrected; this is exactly the way the 
obituary was printed in the paper.)

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