Obit of Lafayette Noland (n453) - Caddo County, Oklahoma

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Surnames: Noland 
The Tribune, Anadarko
October 28, 1915

FATALLY INJURED BY TRAIN

Lafayette Noland of This City the Victim

Lafayette Noland of this city was fatally injured about 6:00 last 
Thursday afternoon by the eastbound Rock Island passenger train. The 
place of contact was a short distance west of the second bridge 
across the Washita River west of this city. It appears that the 
"cowcatcher" threw him clear of the track, but not without breaking 
his right leg in two places and battering his scalp in two or three 
places, though, as far as we can learn, without fracturing the 
skull. The injured man died at 11:25 that night at his home here; he 
having been brought to this city on the train that ran into him.

Mr. Noland had been plowing on the day of this occurrence on the 
farm of James Farren, just east of the railroad bridge and had 
finished the day's work and started to the home of his son, Samuel 
T. Noland and family, a short distance west of the same bridge, 
where he expected to eat supper. But he failed to reach there. 
Samuel T., who furnishes us the data for this article is not clear 
as to why his father did not hear the rumbling of the train as it 
approached him, for his father's hearing, he states, was acute. He 
is disposed to account for the seeming lapse of hearing on the 
theory that, as the train was late for half or three-quarters of an 
hour--there about 6:00, when it should have been at the Anadarko 
station at 5:30--it was probably that his father thought the train 
had passed and was meditating along entirely different lines. At the 
Samuel T. Noland house, supper was held. Then, after a little while, 
there was a rustle and two men were observed and then it was that 
the awful light of what had occurred dawned upon the family. Samuel 
T. came to town on horseback arriving here at about 8:00. (The train 
had come on east before he knew of his father's death) A daughter of 
the deceased, Mrs. Grace Williams, was also at the home here, as was 
Miss Blanche, a daughter of Samuel T. Noland.

Undertaker Gish had charge of the burial arrangements. Owing to the 
desire to affort to absent relatives who might wish to attend the 
funeral services the privilege of doing so, burial was postponed 
until Sunday afternoon. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. I. 
W. Armstrong at 2:00 at the family home on the south side of 
Oklahoma Avenue, between Second and Third streets. His text was 
taken from II Samuel 14:14. There was a large attendance at the 
funeral, as well as at the interment which took place in the 
Anadarko Cemetery. Flowers were present in profusion--the symbol of 
the relationship of the life that is with the life to be as 
reflected in the highest strain of civilzation on this planet.

The deceased was 59 years of age. He and his wife, who survives, 
were the parents of eight children, all, so far as is known, yet 
living. There is one whose place of residence is not known to the 
others, this is Howard Allen Noland. The others are Samuel T, 
Anadarko; Charles Frederick, Forest City, Missouri; Fran Austin, 
Page, Nebraska; Clyde Foster, Page, Nebraska; James Marion, Page 
Nebraska; Mrs. O. E. Plummer, Forest City, Missouri; Mrs. Grace 
Williams, Anadarko.

Samuel T. Noland would have The Tribune voice his thanks to Dr. 
Hume, Dr. Williams and Dr. Taylor, all of whom worked heroically to 
try to save his father.
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