WADE FYKE'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH

What could have proved a fatal accident occurred on the Wade Fyke property in north Carrollton last Thursday. Wade had gone down the well to clean it out when a warning was given him by his father to "look out." He was in a stooping position and at that instance stood up to see what was wrong when a heavy slide of earth was heaped upon him imprisoning him under its load up to his neck.
Dell Smith with W. D. Fyke were the only one helping clean the well. They realizing that another slide would entirely cover Wade and that also being in quick sand he was gradually sinking, worked untiringly until they became exhausted. By this time Wade could get his hands out and also help to free himself. But this seemed to slow, help was summoned from down town and soon forty men hastened to the scene of the accident and soon had him free and mounting a ladder out of his prison smiling, glad to be upon the top of the ground where he could breathe freely, but had the earth fallen in on his chest instead of his back, we fear it would have been fatal.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, May 28, 1920
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

FYKE
Wade H., Fyke Road, Carrollton, Texas. Survived by sons Merrill and Carden Fyke; three grandchildren; sisters Mrs. Earl Skiles. Mrs. Will Myers, several nieces and nephews. Services 3 p.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church, Carrollton.  Dr. Fred A. White officiating. Interment Perry Cemetery Pallbearers: Arthur Good, Chester Good, Roy Mitchell, David Nix, Glen Odom, S. B. Price Honorary pallbearer: Members of the Board of Deacons of First Baptist Church. Carrollton.
RHOTON FUNERAL HOME
Carrollton - CH7-4077

The Dallas Morning News
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Wade H. Fyke
CARROLLTON, Texas - Funeral services for Wade H. Fyke, 76, Carrollton farmer and church leader, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church here. Burial in Perry Cemetery.
Mr. Fyke, who died Tuesday, formerly served as Sunday school superintendent for 15 years and chairman of the board of deacons for 13 years in the First Baptist Church. He was a life-long Carrollton resident.
Survivors: Two sons, Wade Merrill Fyke and Frank Carden Fyke of Farmers Branch; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Skiles and Mrs. G. W. Myers of Carrollton, and three grandchildren.

The Dallas Morning News - October 3, 1963
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

FYKE
WADE H - 1885-1962
MARY EMMA - 1890-1957

Perry Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas