Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Schwartz, John November 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com June 11, 2010, 2:39 pm Woodburn Independent December 1,1888 The Herald's special correspondence from Walton,in the lower Siuslaw, says that on the ??st inst, John Schwartz, aged 29, George Montgomery and others went out after a bear.The dogs ran into a thicket of brush and brought to bay a black bear.Young Schwartz rushed in the thicket and shot and killed it. In the meantime George Montgomery came up, and seeing Schawrtz's black coat, mistook it for a bear, and shot at it, the ball passing through his body near the short ribs. Schwartz cried out"I am shot". George ran to him an dpicked him up, when he said "Lay me down and let me die" and in a few minutes he was dead.The deceased was unmarried. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/marion/obits/s/schwartz160ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/orfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb