Oxley, W. H. 1836 - 1897

OXLEY

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 11/24/2020 at 11:35:06

Source: Decorah Republican Jan. 28, 1897 P 4 C 2

KILLED BY A RUNAWAY
W. H. Oxley, one of Bloomfield’s Oldest Residents, the Victim of the Accident.
A telephone message from W. K. Riggs, at Castalia, last evening, brought the awful intelligence that W. H. Oxley, one of the oldest residents of Bloomfield township, came to his death a few hours before while on his way to Ossian, from being run into by a runaway team, the tongue of the sleigh going through his body. Additional information secured this morning gives the particulars more fully, and we are glad to learn that the accident was not as harrowing as at first reported.
Mr. Oxley, in company with Andrew Queen, was going to Ossian, and they were walking behind their sleigh when another team belonging to August Schrubbe, which was running array, came upon them suddenly. Mr. Queen heard them coming and looking back found them so close that he had only time to call to Mr. Oxley and jump out of the road. Mr. Oxley did not move quickly enough and the tongue of the sleigh to which the runaways were hitched struck him, inflicting fatal injuries. A physician was summoned at once, but the wounded man died before such aid could reach him.
We have no data from which we can give our readers a sketch of the life of Mr. Oxley at this time. We can only speak of him as we have found him during an acquaintance extending over a period of a quarter century—a true man, a warm friend and a worthy citizen in every relation of life.

Source: Decorah Republican Feb. 4, 1897 P 5 C 2

—Mr. Stewart Oxley, of Burr Oak, was a visitor at this office last Monday. He was on his way home from the funeral of his brother W. H. Oxley, and informs us the chief fact stated in the death notice last week is an error. He was struck by a runaway team, but not so forcibly as to cause death, since there were no marks of injury upon the body to bear out the conclusion that death resulted in that way. He had a heart-weakness, and it is just to conclude that the fright and shock was too severe for that organ in its weakened condition. W. H. Oxley was one of a family of five, and his death is the first break in it.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born May 17, 1836 and died Jan. 27, 1897. He is buried in Centennial Cemetery.

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