Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

OBITUARY
Mrs. Mary Dodd, and Miss Mary Love, came to town last Saturday afternoon, driving a young, though genteel, good conditioned horse. After doing her shopping she started home, a half mile west of the city a piece of wire caught in the buggy wheel, and the noise made the horse shy a little. Mrs. Dodd stopped in front of Mr. John Sheets house, tied her horse and took the wire out; she and Mrs. Sheets had some conversation before she again started on her way home. Mrs. Sheets was probably the last person she talked to; in less than a mile from the Sheets house she met her death, but just how know one knows or likely ever will know. It is supposed by her family that she dropped a line, and reaching to get it, the horse scared and jumped, throwing her partly out of the buggy and while down between the wheel and the bed of the buggy the horse kicked her in the head killing her instantly, but this is only conjecture for no one saw how it was done. The horse went on home with her hanging partly out of the buggy. Her hair wound around the buggy hub so tightly that the wheel had stopped turning and slid along on the ground for nearly half a mile, where it entered the lot of her father who lives on the opposite side of the road from where she lived. Her husband who had become uneasy at her staying out until after dark, took their only child a little six month old baby over to Mrs. Dodds sister and started out to hunt for her, he had not gone very far until he found her hat and then he knew that something had happened to her. The neighbors were soon informed and with lanterns, a search begun, the horse, buggy, and the dead woman were found at her fathers place as already described, everything she had bought still in perfect condition, even the coal oil can setting in the buggy and although there was no stopper of any kind over the spout not a drop had been spilled. The horse had certainly had walked very quietly home. The ladies skull was broken and for all appearances her death was instantaneous.
Mrs. Dodd was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Love who live just west of the city one and a half miles; her sister Mrs. Colville lives near them. All are old settlers. Mrs. Dodd along with her father had secured a fine claim in the run Sept. 16, 1893. She has two brothers living in Arkansas City, Dr. and J. M. Love, another brother Hays loves lives north of this city. The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Moore officiating. a large number of friends and relatives followed the dead young mother to her last resting places in the Newkirk cemetery. While we sympathized deeply with the bereaved husband and his motherless babe., our most heartfelt sorrow is for the aged father and mother of the departed who are so soon again called upon to give up a loving child. The first was a son Mr. George Love; now a daughter. They feel more keenly, and their bereavement is more lasting that of those who are yet in the prime of life and have many animating prospects before them, but in the sundown of life how sad to be bereft of our children. The SOCIALIST joins with the whole community in sad regrets that this aged father and mother should suffer this sad loss, and tender our sincere sympathy to the father, mother, husband, the tender babe brothers and sisters in their terrible affliction over her untimely death.