Frederick County MD Archives Obituaries.....Charles Cleveland SHANK, September 28, 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mark Ault meault@yahoo.com April 28, 2010, 2:29 pm The Frederick Post, Frederick, Maryland, Tuesday, September 29, 1914 Page 5, column 3 BLOW FROM BAT FATAL Seven-Year-Old Boy Never Fully Recovered from Accident Last Summer Struck on the head by a baseball bat last summer, Charles Cleveland Shank, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Shank, 24 East All Saints’ street died yesterday morning at his home as a result. The accident occurred while he was at play and since then he has suffered from the blow. Saturday his father took him to Hagerstown for treatment, which proved unsuccessful. Young Shank was a member of the Lutheran Sunday school. Besides his parents he leaves two brothers and four sisters. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. from the house with interment in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Thomas P. Rice is the funeral director. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/frederick/obits/s/shank-cc.txt