Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rennels, Ransom 1928
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Ionia County News, 15 Mar 1928

Man’s Body Is Found In Road – Heart Victim

Lake O’ Resident Had Been Leading Cow; Was Dragged

Coroner Has Inquest

Investigation Believed To Indicate Heart Diseased

Ransom Rennels, 74, of Lake Odessa, Tuesday morning was found dead in the road
one and a half miles north of the city under circumstances which led to the
holding of an inquest by Corner Jason Peacock.

He was found by Clyde Russell and William Warner as they were driving along the
road at about 9:30 a.m.  The body appeared to have been dragged along the road
for some distance and it was at first believed he had been struck by an auto
with the probability that his clothing had caught on the car in such a manner
that he was drawn after it.

Investigation, it is believed, will establish that the death was due to natural
causes, probably heart disease.  Mr. Rennels had been leading a cow belonging to
Andrew Girr_?,  a neighbor.  The cow was found beside the road some distance
away.  Examination of the body indicated, according to Undersheriff Henry Cook,
that death came as the result of a heart attack.  It is believed that, as he
fell, Mr. Rennels must have become entangled in the rope by which he was leading
the cow.  The fall probably frightened the animal and in its rush forward it
dragged the fallen man.

Examination of the body is said to have proven no major bruises or laceration
such as would have resulted had he been struck by an auto were found.  Whether a
further autopsy will be held probably will depend on the desire of the widow and
the outcome of the coroner’s jury findings.

Mr. Rennels had been a resident of Lake Odessa for some 35 years.  So far as is
known he never had been a sufferer from attacks of the kind which is believed to
have caused his death.

Rennels leaves a widow, Mrs. Ella Rennels, and three children, Henry, of
Napiersville, Ill., Mrs. Keller, of Hazel, S.D., and Fay, of Grand Rapids.


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