Monday, April 8, 2024

Whitley County, IN Obituary Lesson: Just delivering wood [1902]

To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, 
as in the provocation.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
Q: For what is your life?
A: It is even a vapor,
that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14


"HUMBARGER, WILLIAM
HUMBARGER, William. met death by accident on 29 January 1902.
He had lived near the Foster School in
Thorncreek Township Whitley County, Indiana
Enroute to Columbia City with a load of wood to be delivered to Grant Strieby, the tailor, his horses became frightened near the Ben Clugston farm situated one mile west of town. 
Mr. Humbarger fell and the rear, wagon wheel ran over his head. 
The horses stopped at the Widup corner in Columbia City. (Buried in the Stough Cemetery) He was aged 39 years."