Obit of Lemuel Dorrance (d652) - Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gayle Gardner <gayle1@wheatstate.com>  20 Oct 2000
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Surnames: Dorrance, Powell, Ingle 
July-21, 1921

Paralysis caused of Lem Dorrance Death

Ed P Ingle in Receipt of Letter from Jaun Zampieri at Grandada 
Nicaragua Ed P Ingle received Saturday fro Juan B. Zampieri of 
Granada Nicaragua giving some of the main particulars of Lem 
Dorrance on July 13. According to the letter Mr. Dorrance wa 
stricken with paralysis on July 5th at San Carlos, and on July 8 was 
carried by motor boat to the home of Mr. Zampieri at Granada 35 
miles away, and was later removed to the sanitarium, where the best 
of medical aid and attention was given to him. He gradually grew 
worse however and on 13 July passed away. He was conscious up to the 
time of his death although he never spoke a word from the time he 
was stricken. the body was placed in a zinc csket and was placed in 
a fine mahogany coffin and buried in the cemetery at Granada. 
According to the laws of the country the body could not be shipped 
at that time,but in 4 or 5 years according to Mr. Zampieri.

Lemuel Dorrance was the son of Henry B. and Mary E. Powell Dorrance. 
He came with his widowed mother to Lexington and Norman at the time 
of the land run.
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