Samuel Terry Harlan - Purcell, OK
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hamquilter
N 35° 00.722 W 097° 21.662
14S E 649543 N 3875604
This monument stands beside a Santa Fe caboose which was donated in his memory.
Waymark Code: WMJCWV
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2013
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In downtown Purcell on Main Street, a small park known as Santa Fe Plaza contains several memorials and monuments, as well as ATSF Caboose #999608. This caboose was donated to the City of Purcell in 1991 in memory of Samuel Harlan.
The granite monument reads:
Dedicated to all the citizens
of Purcell in fond memory of
Samuel Terry Harlan
May 1951 - August 1989Donated to the City of Purcell
this 11th day of November, 1991
Beneath this is engraved:
His love for the Santa Fe
Railroad was only surpassed
by his love for his family
and Purcell