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Nolt, Ella (1942-1959)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Nov 12 p. 7
Birth date: 1942
text of obituary:
Falling Tree Hits Three Girls at Baptismal Site
ONE INSTANTLY KILLED IN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT NEAR BAREVILLE PA.
Bareville, Pa. — A seventeen-year-old girl was instantly killed and two companions seriously injured in an unusual accident Sunday, Nov. 1, while waiting to witness a baptismal service in a stream near Hinketown [sic Hinkletown].
Ella Nolt, 17, and Martha and Ruth Zimmerman, sisters 20 and 15 years of age, were standing in front of a clump of trees in the meadow when a sudden gust of wind caused a heavy tree trunk to topple over, pinning them underneath. A fourth girl was knocked down but not injured.
The tragedy was witnessed by the dead girl's mother, Mrs. Mahlon Nolt. The 12-year-old brother of the Zimmerman girls tried to shout a warning, but it was too late. A tow truck was called to lift the trunk so the injured girls could be taken to the hospital. One had a back injury and the other a fractured leg. They are the daughters of Elam Zimmermans of Martindale.
The three girls all attended the Groffdale Mennonite church, where funeral services for the Nolt girl were conducted Nov. 4. The baptismal service they had come to see was that of another Mennonite church.
