Children
No Issue
Sibling(s):
Flora Nolf
Annie Edith Nolf
Oscar Floyd Nolf
Franklin B Nolf
Nellie May Nolf
Chester Nolf
Mae L. Nolf
Reuben C Nolf |
Notes:
Easton Daily Express, Friday July 15, 1913
Oliver Nolf Dead Along Railroad
Lehigh Valley Conductor, Missed From His Train, Found Lifeless
Oliver Nolf, a well known resident of the South Side, and for the past seventeen years an employee of the Lehigh Valley railroad, was killed early this morning between Port Reading and South Plainfield , N.J., when he fell between cars and was run over. One of his legs was cut off and when found life was extinct.
Mr. Nolf was conductor of a train that left Easton at 12:05 o’clock this morning. Leaving Port Reading, east bound, he was seen to begin to walk over the train from the caboose to the locomotive. He did not reach the engine and when the train arrived at South Plainfield he was missed. Inquiries were sent along the line and the crew were informed that his dead body had been found only a short distance from Port Reading by an Employee of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. An Engine was sent to the place and the body was taken to Somerville.
Mr. Nolf was in the 26th year of his age. He was a native of Williams Township and resided at No. 607 Milton avenue. He is survived by his wife; his mother. Mrs. Reuben Nolf, of Bethlehem; four brothers, Floyd, Chester and Reuben Nolf, of the South Side; Frank Nolf, of Morgan Hill, and four sisters, Mrs. Edward Bowlby, of The South Side; Mrs. John Clark, of New York, and Nellie and Mrs. Flora Unangst, of Bethlehem.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination and attended the Glendon church. He was also a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors and the Lehigh Valley Relief Association. |
