Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Boucher, Ralph November 1902
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Walnut Valley Times, November 21, 1902, Volume XXXIII, Number 44
A Fatal Accident 

In the midst of life we are in death was aptly illustrated, last Friday 
evening. Ralph Boucher, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Boucher, 
living five miles west of Augusta returned from school a happy schoolboy, 
perhaps anticipating a pleasant vacation on Saturday.

He mounted his horse and went to the stalk field for the cows. In a few moments 
the horse returned dragging little Ralph with one foot in the stirrup. Medical 
assistance was soon summoned, the child was dead.

How the accident occurred can only be surmised, but it appears that the horse 
got tangled in barbed wire and became unmanageable.  He ran with the boy under 
a tree and one of the branches caught him at the throat breaking his neck and 
throwing him from the horse.

Cale John, who attended the funeral says that the arrangements were the most 
appropriate of any he had ever attended. All the neighbors attended to express 
their sympathy for the bereaved family. The grace and coffin box were lined 
with muslin and a wreath of evergreen was placed upon the coffin lid – JOURNAL.


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