 Denison  Section 8  Maude E. Morefield 6 May 1879 - 20 February 1967 Victor L. Morefield 17 March 1877 - 11 October 1950 The Denison Press Friday, October 20, 1950 Pg. 2 Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, October 15, for Victor Leslie Morefield, 73, at Bratcher-Moore chapel with Rev. Richard Crews and J.F. Ellison officiating. Interment was in Oakwood Cemetery, with Bratcher-Moore in charge. Mr. Morefield, a former Denison fire department employee and chief, was engaged in the grocery and feed business at 1610 W. Morton for several years. He was born in Denison March 17, 1877, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Morefield. He was educated in Denison schools, and was married here in 1900 to Miss Maud Evelyn Coleman. He was a member of the First Christian church. Survivors are his widow; a daughters, Mrs. Ludia Cottrell, Riverside, North Dakota, and one grandchild.
The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, March 27, 1892 pg. 4 HORRIBLY SCALDED Lewis Morefield, a teamster, residing at 410 South Rusk avenue, at the Rusk Avenue House, was the victim of an accident early this week that may terminate fatally, and if not fatally cripple him for life. He was assisting in cleaning a lot of hogs out at the J. W. Williams slaughter pen, two and one-half miles northwest of the city, when he slipped and fell into a vat of scalding water. The vat is constructed under the floor of the slaughter house, the top edge of which is on a plane with the floor. It is eight feet long by four feet wide and three deep, and at the time of the accident was full up to the brim. A porker had just been drawn out and the floor was wet and slick. Morefield attempted to pass between the hog and the vat when his feet slipped and in he went. A Negro man, who was also assisting in the work, grabbed the sinking man by the head and prevented his face from going under. Morefield was dragged out as quickly as possible, but not before the scalding water had penetrated all his clothing from his shoulders down, and when his clothes were removed the outer skin came off with them. He was put in the butcher wagon and brought home as quickly as possible, and the services of a physician were secured. He has never lost consciousness, and states that as yet he is experiencing no great pain. In the event of final recovery it is probable that his muscles will be so impaired that their usefulness will never be fully restored. The Herald did Mr. Morefield great injustice by intimating that he was under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident. This was not true. Mr. Morefield is not a drinking man. The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, April 10, 1892 pg. 3 MORTUARIES Early Monday morning Mr. Louis Morefield, residing at the Rusk Avenue House on South Rusk near Forest Park, died from the effects of his awful hot water bath at the Williams slaughter house two weeks since. Particulars concerning the accident were given in the Gazetteer at that time. Mr. Morefield had been residing in Denison many years and was an industrious, law-abiding citizen. His remains were interred in Oakwood Tuesday. The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, April 10, 1892 pg. 4 LOCAL CONDENSATIONS Monday - Mr. Louis Morefield, residing on South Rusk avenue, died this morning. Tuesday - The remains of Mr. Louis Morefield were interred in Fairview cemetery this morning under auspices of the Grand Army.  Sammie Morefield died 14 September 1892 Age 18 Yrs. 7 Mos. & 20 Ds. s/o L. & M.J. Morefield The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, September 18, 1892 THE BRIDGE TOO LOW Sam Morefield was killed Wednesday night on a Missouri, Kansas & Texas freight train some where between Wartoga and Denton, and his body was brought on to Denison early Thursday morning. Sam was 18 or 19 years of age, and had been at work at the freight depot here some time. He was a painter by trade and secured a job on the paint car, and was doing some work Wednesday at Alvarado. After finishing the work he started home on a freight train. He was sitting out on top of a freight car and when at a point some 15 or 20 miles south of Denton he remarked to one of the train men: "I believe I will go over the train and talk awhile with the fireman." That was the last seen of him until the train reached Whitesboro, when a brakeman found his body lying cross-wise on the top of a box car. He was not dead but was in a dying condition. He was taken down and removed to the station building where medical aid was summoned, but all signs of life had disappeared by 2 o'clock. An ugly gash in the rear top of the head told the tale. While passing up the train it dashed across the Denton creek bridge. Morefield not being familiar with the road did not know of his danger. The bridge is low and his head came in contact with the iron girders. The skull was crushed in, the body fell across the car where it lay until found at Whitesboro. As stated above the body was brought on to Denison and conveyed to the family homestead on South Rusk avenue, where it was prepared for burial. The peculiar and terrible death of Mr. Morefield, Sr., father to Sam, is still fresh in the minds of Gazetteer readers. While engaged in scalding hogs out at the Lindsey slaughter pen in April of this year he slipped and fell into a vat of scalding water. Death was not instantaneous. He lingered a few weeks and, contrary to expectation, died with little or no pain. Sam was a grown man in person but not so in ways and habits. Only a few weeks ago he took out an accident policy in favor of his mother for $1500. LOCAL CONDENSATIONS Friday - The remains of Sam Morefield were interred this evening in Oakwood cemetery.   OAKWOOD CEMETERY
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