Volume 7 , Issue 37

1894 - Early Day Tragedy...

[taken from Renfrew's Record, dated January, 1920.] -- On Monday night, January 8, 1894, James McClure, a young settler who has a claim 46 miles southeast of Alva, near Ringwood, drove through Alva with the dead body of his father, George McClure, in his wagon, on his way to his home in Barber County, 20 miles west of Medicine Lodge, near Deerhead.
????? The young man stated that his father seemed in his usual health Saturday, but that early Sunday morning he was awakened by his father's groans and in a short time the old gentleman was dead. The young man immediately hitched up his team and wrapped his father's body in some quilts, placed it in the wagon and started to the family home nearly 100 miles away. Mr. McClure stopped in Alva a short time to inquire whether an inquest would be required, but as it was evident that Mr. McClure's death resulted from natural causes, the authoriies decided that an inquest was not necessary. Here Charlie Marsh, a Barber County neighbor, joined the bereaved young man in his lonesome journey home. It was a most sad homecoming for the grief-stricken mother and children, as the father and son had left home but a week or two before in their usual good health.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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