DR. W. W. VAN NOY

Tuesday morning word was received here by Mrs. Belle Van Noy that Dr. W. W. Van Noy had died at Kiefer early Tuesday morning.

Dr. Van Noy lived in Tishomingo forty-five years.

November eighteenth, 1883, Dr. and Mrs. Van Noy moved to Tishomingo from Dodd City, Texas, bringing their household effects in a two-horse wagon. They located in the Old Capitol Hotel building, and lived there for some ten or twelve years where they engaged in the hotel business. Their home was always open to any and everyone whether they were pauper or prince. In the mean time Dr. Van Noy practiced medicine.

His mode of conveyance was by buggy and team, and many times during epidemics and when sickness was prevalent, the Doctor went night and day, sleeping while the driver was taking him to another sick patient. It has been said of him that if he had collected all the fees that he had earned in what is now Johnston County, he would have been wealthy.

Some five years ago Dr. and Mrs. Van Noy moved to Keifer, Oklahoma where he had established himself in the practice of medicine.

He is survived by his wife and five children; Mrs. Cornelius Hardy of Wewoka, two daughters, who reside in Louisiana; Oscar Van Noy of California, and Walter Van Noy of Muskogee.

This good man is held in the memory of a large number of Johnston County people in fatherly reverence, having been their family physician for many years.

Source: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 7, No. 1, March 1929, p. 125-126.