Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  William Jake Sumter

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THIS is typed from newpaper clippings taken from Okla. Newspapers by 
Belle Forrest Sumpter Gullett and put into a scrapbook to be given to her 
descendents.

WILLIAM JAKE SUMPTER: RELATIVE OF OSAGE COUNTY, SUMPTER FAMILY
Killed Near Eagle Mine, OBITUARY

Jake Sumpter, a farmer living northwest of town was hit by Huntsville 
pickup train.

Last night about six o'clock Jake Sumpter left town on his way home. 
He had just delivered a load of wood in town for a neighbor who he was 
working for.  There were three wood wagons left here together, he 
being the last one.  When at the crossing near the Eagle Coal mine the 
other two wagons had crossed the track and his horses were just across 
when the pick-up train from Huntsville came along unnoticed and struck 
his wagon, throwing him from the wagon in front of the cars and he was 
passed over by three cars and the engine.

The boys that were with him did not miss him until they were quite a
distance away and they then saw his horses loose from the wagon. They
returned to the crossing and found him, but the train crew brought him 
to the yard office and from there he was taken to the morgue. He was 
taken to his home this afternoon from which place the funeral will be 
held tomorrow.

Burial will take place at the Hardister burial grounds.

Copied from "Moberly Monitor-Index", Randolph County, Moberly, MO, 65270;
Fri., 25 Sep 1903, d. 24 Sep 1903.

(son of BENJAMIN H. SUMPTER (THOMAS6, FIELDING "EBB"5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM
THOMAS3, NICHOLAS2, NICHOLAS1) was born January 1843 in Randolph County, MO
& ROSANNAH A. BLOCH)

Burial: 25 September 1903, Hardister Cemetery, Randolph County, MO