Saturday, November 6, 2021

Oklahoma Territory Obituary Lesson: Never know if one may be digging their own grave - LITERALLY [1894]

To day if ye will hear his voice
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14
 
"Muskogee Co, OK- 1800s Obituaries
The Indian Journal Newspaper, Eufaula, I.T., Mar 22, 1894 issue,
page 1, column 4, "Everywhere": 
An awful accident happened to the family of J B MARSHALL, living near Enid, O.T., last week. 
MARSHALL had just completed a large dug out, in which his family was to reside this summer. 
His family of nine children arrived from Iowa Thursday, and that night they retired in what they little thought would be a tomb
While asleep the top support of the dug out, the trunk of a small black jack tree, gave way from the heavy load of dirt upon it, and the top of the dug out, several tons of earth, went crashing in on the family
Two small tables on one side of the room held the roof up until the father could extricate his wife and several children, but the other two were crushed to death."