Riley Layton Coppock was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to William and Almeda Coppock on February 12, 1898, and moved with his parents and siblings to the family farm near Drummond, Indian Territory, in 1905. He graduated Drummond High School in 1916 and then attended Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. "Layton", as he went by, was a handsome young man very popular among his schoolmates and engaged to be married to his high school sweetheart, Mable Leiphart.
On February 13, 1919, Layton traveled from school in Wichita to visit his married sister, Elsie Coppock Jung, in Bushton, Kansas. But two days after arriving, Layton became ill with the Spanish Flu that was in it's second devastating wave. His parents and fiancé were summoned from Drummond to his bedside as his condition worsened. Before falling into a coma, Layton looked at his fiancé, Mable, and said "Come and go with me." He then looked at his mother saying "What are we waiting for? Why can't we go?"
Layton passed away on February 22, 1919, at 21 years of age and his body was sent back to Drummond for burial. The Drummond schools were dismissed on the day of his funeral and the citizens of Drummond literally buried the casket in flowers as it was lowered into his grave at the Del Norte Cemetery south of Drummond.
On February 13, 1919, Layton traveled from school in Wichita to visit his married sister, Elsie Coppock Jung, in Bushton, Kansas. But two days after arriving, Layton became ill with the Spanish Flu that was in it's second devastating wave. His parents and fiancé were summoned from Drummond to his bedside as his condition worsened. Before falling into a coma, Layton looked at his fiancé, Mable, and said "Come and go with me." He then looked at his mother saying "What are we waiting for? Why can't we go?"
Layton passed away on February 22, 1919, at 21 years of age and his body was sent back to Drummond for burial. The Drummond schools were dismissed on the day of his funeral and the citizens of Drummond literally buried the casket in flowers as it was lowered into his grave at the Del Norte Cemetery south of Drummond.
Riley Layton Coppock was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to William and Almeda Coppock on February 12, 1898, and moved with his parents and siblings to the family farm near Drummond, Indian Territory, in 1905. He graduated Drummond High School in 1916 and then attended Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. "Layton", as he went by, was a handsome young man very popular among his schoolmates and engaged to be married to his high school sweetheart, Mable Leiphart.
On February 13, 1919, Layton traveled from school in Wichita to visit his married sister, Elsie Coppock Jung, in Bushton, Kansas. But two days after arriving, Layton became ill with the Spanish Flu that was in it's second devastating wave. His parents and fiancé were summoned from Drummond to his bedside as his condition worsened. Before falling into a coma, Layton looked at his fiancé, Mable, and said "Come and go with me." He then looked at his mother saying "What are we waiting for? Why can't we go?"
Layton passed away on February 22, 1919, at 21 years of age and his body was sent back to Drummond for burial. The Drummond schools were dismissed on the day of his funeral and the citizens of Drummond literally buried the casket in flowers as it was lowered into his grave at the Del Norte Cemetery south of Drummond.
On February 13, 1919, Layton traveled from school in Wichita to visit his married sister, Elsie Coppock Jung, in Bushton, Kansas. But two days after arriving, Layton became ill with the Spanish Flu that was in it's second devastating wave. His parents and fiancé were summoned from Drummond to his bedside as his condition worsened. Before falling into a coma, Layton looked at his fiancé, Mable, and said "Come and go with me." He then looked at his mother saying "What are we waiting for? Why can't we go?"
Layton passed away on February 22, 1919, at 21 years of age and his body was sent back to Drummond for burial. The Drummond schools were dismissed on the day of his funeral and the citizens of Drummond literally buried the casket in flowers as it was lowered into his grave at the Del Norte Cemetery south of Drummond.
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