Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Fitch, Frank Leland August 28, 1915
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Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 3 Sep 1915
FITCH, Frank Leland
20 Nov 1892 to 28 Aug 1915
22y 9m 8d

Fatally Gored by Jersey Bull – Frank Fitch killed last Saturday While at work 
on the Manchester Farm. Frank L. Fitch was gored to death by a bull on I. A. 
Manchester’s farm about two miles southwest of Canfield last Saturday 
afternoon.  Mr. Fitch and Edward Craig, also employed on the farm, were 
cleaning the big stock barn and in order to give the box stall occupied by the 
bull attention it was necessary to move the animal to another stall.  This the 
young men did without trouble, each holding a strap fastened to a ring in the 
bull’s nose.  Before the task of cleaning the stall was finished Mr. Craig had 
occasion to go to the house on an errand but warned Mr. Fitch not to attempt 
to move the bull back to his own quarters until he returned to assist him.  
Mr. Fitch however, did not fear the beast and after the stall was cleaned, he 
bravely unsnapped one of the straps.  Hugh Stuart, father-in-law of Mr. 
Manchester, was in the barn and suggested that it would be well for him to 
hold one of the straps while the change was being made, but Mr. Fitch believed 
himself equal to the task and loosened the other strap.  Almost instantly 
after he found himself released the bull charged Mr. Fitch, tearing a great 
hole in his abdomen with one horn and then hurling him out of the enclosure.  
Blood gushed from the gaping wound.  Efforts were made to stop the flow of 
blood until the arrival of Drs. Campbell and Coy, who promptly responded, but 
they quickly found that the injury was a fatal one.  The young man passed away 
soon after the arrival of the doctors. Frank L. Fitch, eldest son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Jesse B. Fitch, who live within sight of the Manchester farm, was born in 
Ellsworth township Nov. 20, 1892, consequently was in the twenty-second year 
of his age.  He was strong and manly, full of energy and deservedly popular 
with all who knew him.  He was active in church and grange work and at the 
time of his death was captain of Dublin grange degree staff.  He is survived 
by his parents, one sister, Odessa, and one brother, Fred.  Funeral services 
held from the family home Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock were conducted by Rev. 
J. V. Haskell, a large number of sorrowing friends being in attendance.  
Interment in the Ellsworth cemetery.

Burial – 31 Aug 1915 in Section A Row 5 Ellsworth Cemetery, Ellsworth, 
Mahoning Co. OH


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