From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" iggy29@scican.net
To: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: EXPIRES WHILE AT WORK ON HIS FARM NEAR LAMONI - T.E. OLSEN.
Date: Sunday, October 07, 2001 8:10 PM

Decatur County Journal
September 13, 1906

THOMAS E. OLSEN, brother of A.P. OLSEN, of this city, was found dead on his farm one mile northeast of Lamoni Thursday of last week. MR. OLSEN had left his home near the L.D.S. Church in Lamoni about 9 o'clock that morning for his farm where he had intended to haul out and scatter over the land a considerable amount of fertilizer. The shed near which he had been working stands near a tall hedge and he had backed his wagon in between the shed and the hedge on the north, and had the wagon box about half filled when he was called upon to cease his hearthly labors. MR. OLSEN was last seen alive about ten o'clock that morning by Oscar Brenizer. He was pumping water for the stock near where the body was found between five and six o'clock that evening by his wife and daughter, MABEL. It had been his custom when at work on his farm to drive to his home in Lamoni for dinner. As the time passed and he did not return, MRS. OLSEN became alarmed and in company with her daughter, MABEL, walked to the farm to investigate.

As they neared the shed they called but received no reply. Soon they could see the faithful team standing where they had been driven by their master. They hurried forward and as they turned the corner, they came upon the body still in death. His tools were leaning against the shed and from indications he had reclined in the shade of the shed for a moment's rest. From all appearances, death had resulted without a struggle. He had bent over and rested gently upon his left cheek, the back of his right hand rested upon his right leg, his left hand rested against his breast while his knees were still in the same position he must have been while sitting down.

MISS MABEL, the daughter, ran to the home of Theodore Creveling, 200 yards away and telephoned her grandmother, MRS. O.A. OLSEN; John Randall and Geo. Evans arrived in a few minutes and shortly afterwards Coroner F.A. Bowman, of Leon, and the undertakers at Lamoni were summoned.

Upon securing the permission of the coroner, the body was taken to the family home and Doctors Goff and Horner were called. They attributed his death to cerebral hemorrhage of the brain and Coroner Bowman decided that an inquest was unnecessary.

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October 7, 2001