OBIT: John S. MCCADDEN, 1917, Hunterstown, Adams County, PA

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John S. McCadden, a young man of near Hunterstown, died last Tuesday from 
injuries received on Sunday, August 19th, when he fell to the hard surface of the 
Lincoln Highway, near Guldens, as he alighted from the autobus running between 
Gettysburg and Hanover.  Mr. McCadden had been employed in Gettysburg.  On the 
Sunday of the fatal accident he was on his way home to spend the day with his 
parents and left the bus at Guldens in order to cut across to Hunterstown.  He 
stepped from the car while it was in motion, slipped and fell heavily, the back 
of his head receiving the full force of the blow as he dropped to the hard 
surface of the macadam roadway.  He was carried into the house of Harry Walter, 
who lives on the Daniel Coleman farm nearby.  Physicians were summoned and 
everything possible was done to save his life.  He was removed in an automobile 
to his own home in the evening.  The physicians succeeded in relieving the 
condition in his head to some extent and at times he was restored to partial 
consciousness only to go into a state of coma again.  Mr. McCadden was a son of 
Lois and Fannie McCadden.  He was much respected in his community and by all who 
knew him and the death is an unusually sad one.  He was aged 22 years, 9 months 
and 3 days.  He leaves his parents, three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Mary 
Clemmis and Willis M. McCadden of Butler township, Miss Bessie McCadden and Miss 
Alice McCadden at home, and Charles McCadden of Hanover.  Funeral was held by 
Rev. I. S. Ditzler with interment at the Reformed Church at New Chester.

Gettysburg Compiler – Saturday, September 1, 1917