Ole K. Prescott (1865-1909)

PRESCOTT, SIMONSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/6/2016 at 22:48:51

From Nevada Representative October 8, 1909 (front page)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF OLE PRESCOTT.

Ole K. Prescott of Milford township died about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon at the home of his neighbor George Melohn, where he had been carried after the accident of more a week previous which cost him his life. His death had been expected for several days before it occurred, and while it was recognized that he was holding out wonderfully very little encouragement had been gathered from his tenacity of life. The particulars of the accident, further than that he fell off from his wagon and was run over or partially run over by it are not well understood; for he was never able to tell much about it, but he was believed to have internal injuries such as men seldom do recover from, and there was little to do toward promoting his actual recovery excepting not to make matter worse with an ill-considered operation, and to hope that his injuries were not in fact as serious as they appeared to be. All such chances were taken and on Tuesday afternoon he was still able to be lifted out of bed while the bed was changed. After noon also he was still conscious and clear-headed; but the limit to his endurance came soon after, and the word of his death brought no surprise.

Mr. Prescott was a native of Norway, where he was born January 19, 1865; but he came with his parents as a child to this country, the family locating first in Illinois and some years after wards coming to this country and making their home in Milford township. Here he grew up and in due time was married to Miss Mary Simonson; who with their eight children survives him. He was capable and successful farmer, living on a rented farm but owning also a farm of his own and being counted in distinctly good circumstances. He was a man of affairs and active in what ever concerned the community in which he belonged. He was widely and favorably known over a great part of the county, and the sympathy expressed for him during the last week of his life was most genuinely felt. Men liked and respected him and hoped against hope that he would recover from his injuries.

It is to be noted in connection with Mr. Prescott's death as the result of an accident, that two of his brothers have died similarly and both in the month of October. One brother was run over by the cars in the middle '90s between Boone and Ames, and another died as did Mr. Prescott in consequence of being thrown from a wagon that accident occurring in Nevada seven or eight years ago.

The funeral of Mr. Prescott was held Thursday afternoon at Roland but was preceded by services at the Melohn residence in Milford. There was a large crowd at the services in Milford and a very much larger one at the funeral in Roland, in both cases there being most simple testimony to the interest felt in the deceased in both town and country.