ESCAPED GALVESTON FLOOD
Only to Die in Carthage as an After Result
Aged John I. Parker Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon - Nephew Here From Spurgeon
An old man, scarecly known in Carthage, passed quietly away yesterday afternoon at the Hackworth restaurant and rooming house on Main street south of the gas works in the Frisco bottoms. But he had had an eventful career, and the cause of his death recalls an interesting story.
John I. Parker was the man's name, and he was 78 years old. He was born and reared in Pennsylvania, went to Nebraska in 1880, and from there down to Texas.
In 1900 he went through the terrible Galveston flood, he with his daughter and her son being three of thirty persons caught together in one house. Of that thirty only five persons survived and Mr. Parker and his two relatives were three of the fortunate five. All night long he clung desperately onto the end of a broken portico roof, and was cut and lacerated, half frozen and nearly dead from exposure when the ordeal was ended. He became separated from his daughter and grandson during the night and id not know till long afterward whether they had escaped. The exposure there completely broke his health and it was as a result that he finally passed away yesterday in Carthage with asthma and heart trouble.
South Texas proving unhealthful, his daughter went to San Antonio, and he came to Carthage the first day of this year. He liked the place and had decided to provide a home and move his family here from Texas. He was formerly an agent for a water wheel company of Springfield, OH., and was figuring with Cowgill & Hill here on a proposition to put a wheel at their new mill now rapidly nearing completion.
The old gentleman was a vegetarian and liked to believe that he would live to be 100 years old. He had been out over the country around Carthage recently on his mill wheel business, and his death was somewhat sudden. The local Masonic fraternity took charge of the remains and had them transferred to Knell's, the deceased being a Mason.
By letter it was learned that W. B. Parker, a general merchant of Spurgeon, the Newton county mining town was a nephew of the deceased, and he was telephoned yesterday evening. He was here this morning making arrangements for the funeral and announced, after wiring relatives in Texas and Nebraska, that the remains would be buried at Hebron, Nebraska, where his youngest daughter Jennie Emmett resides. The body will be shipped tomorrow, and the Masonic lodge will assist.
source:
Carthage Evening Press
Carthage, MO
March 25, 1903
Only to Die in Carthage as an After Result
Aged John I. Parker Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon - Nephew Here From Spurgeon
An old man, scarecly known in Carthage, passed quietly away yesterday afternoon at the Hackworth restaurant and rooming house on Main street south of the gas works in the Frisco bottoms. But he had had an eventful career, and the cause of his death recalls an interesting story.
John I. Parker was the man's name, and he was 78 years old. He was born and reared in Pennsylvania, went to Nebraska in 1880, and from there down to Texas.
In 1900 he went through the terrible Galveston flood, he with his daughter and her son being three of thirty persons caught together in one house. Of that thirty only five persons survived and Mr. Parker and his two relatives were three of the fortunate five. All night long he clung desperately onto the end of a broken portico roof, and was cut and lacerated, half frozen and nearly dead from exposure when the ordeal was ended. He became separated from his daughter and grandson during the night and id not know till long afterward whether they had escaped. The exposure there completely broke his health and it was as a result that he finally passed away yesterday in Carthage with asthma and heart trouble.
South Texas proving unhealthful, his daughter went to San Antonio, and he came to Carthage the first day of this year. He liked the place and had decided to provide a home and move his family here from Texas. He was formerly an agent for a water wheel company of Springfield, OH., and was figuring with Cowgill & Hill here on a proposition to put a wheel at their new mill now rapidly nearing completion.
The old gentleman was a vegetarian and liked to believe that he would live to be 100 years old. He had been out over the country around Carthage recently on his mill wheel business, and his death was somewhat sudden. The local Masonic fraternity took charge of the remains and had them transferred to Knell's, the deceased being a Mason.
By letter it was learned that W. B. Parker, a general merchant of Spurgeon, the Newton county mining town was a nephew of the deceased, and he was telephoned yesterday evening. He was here this morning making arrangements for the funeral and announced, after wiring relatives in Texas and Nebraska, that the remains would be buried at Hebron, Nebraska, where his youngest daughter Jennie Emmett resides. The body will be shipped tomorrow, and the Masonic lodge will assist.
source:
Carthage Evening Press
Carthage, MO
March 25, 1903
ESCAPED GALVESTON FLOOD
Only to Die in Carthage as an After Result
Aged John I. Parker Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon - Nephew Here From Spurgeon
An old man, scarecly known in Carthage, passed quietly away yesterday afternoon at the Hackworth restaurant and rooming house on Main street south of the gas works in the Frisco bottoms. But he had had an eventful career, and the cause of his death recalls an interesting story.
John I. Parker was the man's name, and he was 78 years old. He was born and reared in Pennsylvania, went to Nebraska in 1880, and from there down to Texas.
In 1900 he went through the terrible Galveston flood, he with his daughter and her son being three of thirty persons caught together in one house. Of that thirty only five persons survived and Mr. Parker and his two relatives were three of the fortunate five. All night long he clung desperately onto the end of a broken portico roof, and was cut and lacerated, half frozen and nearly dead from exposure when the ordeal was ended. He became separated from his daughter and grandson during the night and id not know till long afterward whether they had escaped. The exposure there completely broke his health and it was as a result that he finally passed away yesterday in Carthage with asthma and heart trouble.
South Texas proving unhealthful, his daughter went to San Antonio, and he came to Carthage the first day of this year. He liked the place and had decided to provide a home and move his family here from Texas. He was formerly an agent for a water wheel company of Springfield, OH., and was figuring with Cowgill & Hill here on a proposition to put a wheel at their new mill now rapidly nearing completion.
The old gentleman was a vegetarian and liked to believe that he would live to be 100 years old. He had been out over the country around Carthage recently on his mill wheel business, and his death was somewhat sudden. The local Masonic fraternity took charge of the remains and had them transferred to Knell's, the deceased being a Mason.
By letter it was learned that W. B. Parker, a general merchant of Spurgeon, the Newton county mining town was a nephew of the deceased, and he was telephoned yesterday evening. He was here this morning making arrangements for the funeral and announced, after wiring relatives in Texas and Nebraska, that the remains would be buried at Hebron, Nebraska, where his youngest daughter Jennie Emmett resides. The body will be shipped tomorrow, and the Masonic lodge will assist.
source:
Carthage Evening Press
Carthage, MO
March 25, 1903
Only to Die in Carthage as an After Result
Aged John I. Parker Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon - Nephew Here From Spurgeon
An old man, scarecly known in Carthage, passed quietly away yesterday afternoon at the Hackworth restaurant and rooming house on Main street south of the gas works in the Frisco bottoms. But he had had an eventful career, and the cause of his death recalls an interesting story.
John I. Parker was the man's name, and he was 78 years old. He was born and reared in Pennsylvania, went to Nebraska in 1880, and from there down to Texas.
In 1900 he went through the terrible Galveston flood, he with his daughter and her son being three of thirty persons caught together in one house. Of that thirty only five persons survived and Mr. Parker and his two relatives were three of the fortunate five. All night long he clung desperately onto the end of a broken portico roof, and was cut and lacerated, half frozen and nearly dead from exposure when the ordeal was ended. He became separated from his daughter and grandson during the night and id not know till long afterward whether they had escaped. The exposure there completely broke his health and it was as a result that he finally passed away yesterday in Carthage with asthma and heart trouble.
South Texas proving unhealthful, his daughter went to San Antonio, and he came to Carthage the first day of this year. He liked the place and had decided to provide a home and move his family here from Texas. He was formerly an agent for a water wheel company of Springfield, OH., and was figuring with Cowgill & Hill here on a proposition to put a wheel at their new mill now rapidly nearing completion.
The old gentleman was a vegetarian and liked to believe that he would live to be 100 years old. He had been out over the country around Carthage recently on his mill wheel business, and his death was somewhat sudden. The local Masonic fraternity took charge of the remains and had them transferred to Knell's, the deceased being a Mason.
By letter it was learned that W. B. Parker, a general merchant of Spurgeon, the Newton county mining town was a nephew of the deceased, and he was telephoned yesterday evening. He was here this morning making arrangements for the funeral and announced, after wiring relatives in Texas and Nebraska, that the remains would be buried at Hebron, Nebraska, where his youngest daughter Jennie Emmett resides. The body will be shipped tomorrow, and the Masonic lodge will assist.
source:
Carthage Evening Press
Carthage, MO
March 25, 1903
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