Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Stansbury, J. Hardy - February 20, 1903
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Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com August 19, 2018, 12:06 am

source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, February 28, 1903, Image 3

While the two Stansberry (sic) brothers George and Hard, in company with 
other friends were out hunting last Sunday, a lamentable accident occurred 
in which young Hardy was shot by his brother George through accident, they 
being about six feet apart at the time. Hardy received the entire contents 
of the gun under the shoulder, from the effects of which he died. The family 
are inconsolable, and the community shock. Inquest held, developed the fact 
of accidental discharge of the gun with the results above stated.


source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, February 28, 1903, 
Image 3

Accidentally Killed.

Last Saturday two young boys of this place, George Stansbury, aged 16 years, 
and his brother, J. H. Stansbury, aged 14 years, went out hunting with an 
old muzzle loading shotgun, one of the locks of which was not in good repair 
and considerable care needed to be exercised in pulling the hammer back, in 
order to get it to "Stand." During the course of the hunt some partridges 
were flushed and the boys started out after them, the younger one walked in 
front and the elder coming on behind with the guns in his hands, holding it 
with the muzzle down. A bird soon flew up and George, in attempting to 
shoot, pulled the hammer back, forgot to use care, and the hammer fell, 
exploded the charge prematurely and the load of shot lodged in the shoulders 
and neck of his brother, who was a short distance ahead of him, inflicting 
wounds which resulted in his death a few hours afterwards. Judge Robt. Brown 
held an inquest on the body Sunday evening and gave a certificate of death 
in accordance with the facts.


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