A rural Goshen boy was killed Saturday afternoon in a freak accident at his father’s farm on Ind.
119 just east of Country Road 40 about four miles east of Wakarusa.
Dead is Enos R. Imhoff, 17, the son of Ivo Imhoff, Goshen Rt. 5. Deputy Coroner John Yoder said
the death was caused by a brain concussion. The youth also had a two-inch laceration on his left temple.
The mishap occurred as the youth and his brother, William Imhoff, 15, were loading oats into a
wagon with the horses still hitched to the wagon.
Brother Helping
The younger brother was in the loft and was shoveling oats down into the wagon where the
fatally injured youth was. Enos climbed into the wagon to close a trap door through which the gain had
been shoveled and as he did so the horses bolted.
A bump in the barn floor a short distance away reduced the wagon clearance to five inches and
the youth’s head struck a rafter as the horses were pulling away. Enos was knocked face down into the
wagon.
Officers said the entire incident was not seen by William who was still in the loft at the time. The
mishap was investigated by Ronald Berry of the sheriff’s department as well as Yoder.
Funeral services for the Imhoff boy will be conducted at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Imhoff family
home on State Road 119, five miles east of Wakarusa.
A second service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Old Order Mennonited Church at Yellow
Creek. Burial will be in the Frame Mennonite Cemetery at Yellow Creek.
Lienhart’s Funeral Home, Wakarusa, is in charge of arrangements.
Surviving with his parents are 11 sisters and brothers.
Oct. 25, 1965