Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morlock, Gottlieb Jr. January 2, 1914
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times
          FREIGHT TRAIN KILLS EAST ODESSA RESIDENT
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   GOTTLEIB MORLOCK, JR., RUN DOWN FRIDAY EVENING. -- 
         BODY FOUND SATURDAY FORENOON BY NEIGHBOR.
   Returning from a trip to Grand Rapids last Friday evening.  Gottleib Morlock,
Jr., an East Odessa resident, stepped from the local passenger train at Woodbury and 
started westward down the railroad track toward his home.  Twenty feet past the crossing, 
his journey came to an abrupt end when a freight train, which had stood on the siding while 
the passenger train passed by, caught up with him and hurled him beneath the 
wheels, killing him instantly.  His body was not thrown aside by the impact, but lay
midway between the rails all that night and until nine o'clock the next morning, while three 
passenger trains and numerous freights thundered past.  It remained for Wm. Shellhorn to make 
the gruesome discovery Saturday forenoon.
   A coroner's inquest was held Saturday at Woodbury, and all the details of his
death gone over carefully.  It was thought peculiar by some that the engineer of the freight 
failed to see Morlock on the track, but it must be remembered that a heavy squall of snow was 
in progress at the time the accident is supposed to have occurred, and this alone would have 
prevented him from getting a clear view any distance ahead of the engine.  The same fact would
also have prevented Morlock from hearing the approach of the train.  The verdict of jury, 
therefor, was accidental death.
   The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the dead man's home in East Odessa, Rev.
G. F. Klindworth of the Zion Lutheran church preaching the sermon.  Interment was in Lakeside 
cemetery.
   Morlock was thirty-five years old and unmarried.  He made his home with his
parents.  Mr. and Mrs. Gottleib Morlock, Sr., on their farm three miles east of Lake Odessa.  The 
Morloch family are well known East Odessa residents, and have the sincere sympathy of the entire 
vicinity over their bereavement.  Besides the father and mother, the deceased leaves three brothers 
and a sister to mourn his death.

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