Truman P. THORPE

THORPE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/18/2015 at 22:16:46

April 21, 1880 --- May 2, 1901

Death of Truman Thorpe
Truman P. Thorpe, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Thorpe, was born April 21, 1880, in Boone township, Wright county, Iowa, died Thursday noon, May 2, 1901, at Stormont hospital in Topeka, Kansas, of appendicitis, and buried at Garber cemetery, Oklahoma, Friday afternoon, May 3, 1901. On Thursday, March 28th, Truman Thorpe, who was a very large, healthy young man of 21 years, was taken sick with appendicitis at the home of his brother at Overbrook, about twenty miles from Topeka. Monday morning he was taken to the hospital at Topeka, where an operation was successfully performed. His father, E. A. Thorpe, of Garber, reached him the same day and remained with him a week, when he returned home leaving him as all supposed in a fair way to recover, but gangrene having set in before the first operation, a second was necessary about the 17th for an abscess on the lungs. His father was again called by telegram to his beside, where he remained nursing him most carefully and tenderly, assisted by the best doctors and nurses the city afforded, but all to no avail, as death came to him peacefully and quietly Thursday noon. After eating a few mouthfuls of dinner he expressed a wish to sleep a few minutes, which he did, and thus he slept on and on.

Friday noon's train brought the remains to Garber, where the hearse, the Order of Modern Woodmen, the family, consisting of father, mother, two brothers and two sisters, and a large crowd of friends met them and escorted them to Black's undertaker rooms. At 2:20 the Woodmen pall bearers, led by the order and followed by friends, bore the casket to the M.E. church which was packed with sympathizing friends. Rev. A.L. Snyder conducted the funeral services and the choir, consisting of Mrs. J. Robinson, Mrs. Dr. McVicker, I.H. Plank and Owen Morgan rendered very sweet and affecting music. After viewing the remains in the usual manner, the procession again formed and marched to the cemetery, where the Order of Modern Woodmen held their ritualistic services in a very impressive manner over all that remained of their neighbor, friend and brother.