Summit County OhArchives Obituaries.....Starr, Jonathan December 18, 1851
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Summit  County (Ohio) Beacon  Wed. 24 Dec 1851
We are dearly pained to announce the sudden departure from our midst of one of 
the oldest and most estimable of the citizens of Summit County, JONATHAN STARR 
of Copley township. While looking at some goods in the second story of the new 
store of P. D. Hall & Co., on Thursday last, in company with his son, who is a 
clerk in the establishment, he is supposed to have attempted to lean against a 
piece of carpeting - to rest a weak limb - which falling precipitated him 
through the opening left in the floor for the admission of light from above to 
the lower room, around which the railing had not yet been placed.  He fell 
backwards a distance of 13 feet, striking the side of his head on the floor 
with such force as to crush in the skull and kill him almost instantly. No 
blame can attach to the Messrs. Hall, as they had not designed the room for 
public use until its completion. It is one of those casualties which, however 
sudden and afflicting, are occasionally occurring in every community, startling 
by the lesson they teach of life's uncertainties. Mr. Starr was a most 
exemplary citizen. He has filled various public trusts with faultless fidelity 
and was universally respected. Appropriate religious services were had at the 
Congregational church near his late residence, at his funeral on Saturday: Rev. 
Mr. Smith of Middlebury officiating. A large concourse was present to condole 
with the aged widow and relatives on their loss.

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