Obituary of Dayton OHMART, Macoupin County IL, 17 Jun 1998

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Name of Deceased: OHMART, Dayton.
Name of Newspaper: unknown
Date of Obituary: Sept 30, 1932

State Register Special Service
GIRARD, Ill., Sept. 30. - Dayton Ohmart, 76, Girard farmer, was knocked 
down and trampled to death about noon Saturday by a bull which had gone 
into the wrong pen and which Ohmart was seeking to run into another 
pasture.  He lived but a few minutes after the accident.

Attempting to run the bull out of the pen with a pitchfork the animal 
became too much for Ohmart because of the latter's age and the man was 
knocked down, trampled on and rolled along the ground by the bull, which 
had no horns.  Neighbors saw what was happening and chased the bull away 
and took Ohmart into the house where he died.

He was born on Nov. 23, 1856 at North Manchester, Ind., and came to 
Illinois 67 years ago with his parents.  On Sept. 26, 1878 he and Miss 
Susan Riffey were married.  They lived on a farm northwest of Girard until 
1911 when they moved to the plot on which they now reside.

Surviving are his wife, Susan; one daughter, Mrs. Eva King of Pennsylvania;

three sons, Oren, Virden; Chester, Roodhouse; and Charles, Utica, N.Y.; 
eight grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Sophia Steele, Mt. Auburn.

The body was taken to the Berry Mortuary where Coroner James A. McBrian of 
Staunton conducted an inquest tonight, a verdict of accidental death being 
returned.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.


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