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Cambridge- Jeffersonian
Jan 11, 1900

Peter P. Ellison, a prominent farmer of Noble county, died Dec. 24th. His death was caused by blood poisoning resulting from a slight scratch on one of his hands.

Article from the Jeffersonian on April 3, 1873:
Noble County Items:
George, Leven and Allen Woodford, three brothers, of Olive township, with their families, start for Southwest Kansas next week.

Note: These are sons of Aranda Moses Woodford and Mercy Wheeler Woodford

Submitted by Janice Dyer Doran

537 Pound Boy Dead

Carl Shackles, probably the largest boy of his age in America, died Sunday morning at his home in Summerfield, O., of heart disease. He was 16 years of age, and last week tripped the scales at 587 pounds. He was six feet, six inches tall. The casket was too large to go in a door or window and the body was carried out into the yard and placed in it. The boy's abnormal growth begun when he was five years old.

(Wichita Searchlight, Wichita, Kansas, June 29, 1907, page 1, transcribed by Peggy Thompson)