Find A Grave Memorial# 8443886
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Son of a Union Civil War surgeon.
"Mar 19, 1901: ACCIDENT, SAYS INVESTIGATORS — How Noah Shepardson of Conifer, Colorado Lost his Life. LITTLETON, Colo. (To The Republican.) — As to the death of Noah Shepardson of Conifer, Colo., we, the undersigned, wish to make the following statement and set the whole matter right in the interests of all parties and friends of Mrs. N. Shepardson: Mr. Shepardson drove up into the timber in the forenoon to cut two red spruce poles to make a rack to haul ties on. He had cut the poles [and] was returning home. He stopped and called to his man, Tom Shields, who was cutting ties, about 9 rods away, asking Shields if he wanted his broad-ax. Shields answered no. Shepardson then drove on a short distance on the hillside, which was quite steep, and many trees in the road kept him busy clearing them. He was about to hit a tree and was turning his team away from it when the fore wheel missed it, but the brake beam struck it, caused by the hind wheel sliding about a foot, and that threw the wooden brake-bar, which was about seven feet long, forward with great force. He stood up in the box, leaning up hill and braced himself over the right edge of the wagon box. It threw him forward onto the sideboard of the box, striking his forehead there. The bar struck the crown of his head, causing a fracture of the skull about as large as a half dollar. Mr. Shields went down at noon to his dinner, fed the stock, went in and Mrs. Shepardson asked him where Mr. Shepardson was. He said he started down before noon, and probably he had stopped to bring in a load of wood. They waited an hour longer and Mrs. Shepardson sent Shields to look for her husband. Shields soon came back, saying Shepardson was hurt badly. Mrs. Shepardson and two men ran up the road and Shields followed in a carriage and soon overtook them. When they got there Shepardson was still conscious, but could not talk. They took him to the house and sent for Dr. Baker of Evergreen. He made an examination and said there was no hope for him to live. The place on the back of Shepardson's head had a large clot of blood under the scalp. The doctor cut it open and took it out to relieve the pain. Mr. Shepardson lived till 7 p.m. Mrs. Shepardson sent a telephone message to her brother, J.H. Chatfield of Littleton to come at once and early Wednesday morning he and R.D. Herrick drove up there and they, with Jesse Ray, Tom Shields, Mr. Kennedy and two other men, went up to the place of the accident and made a thorough examination and all six men decided that it was purely an accident and blamed no one. J.H. CHATFIELD, R.D. HERRICK — Mrs. Shepardson says her husband has never had any trouble with any of his men and was held in high esteem by all of them. The Shepardson funeral was held this afternoon at Littleton. (Unidentified newspaper clipping in James Herrick Chatfield family Bible)"