OBIT: Edwin Mummert, 1916, Hamilton Township, Adams County, PA

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YOUNG TEACHER KILLED

EDWIN MUMMERT, OF NEAR ABBOTTSTOWN, MEETS TRAGIC DEATH.

Caught beneath a heavy hemlock tree which rolled over on him after it had been 
felled, Edwin Mummert, a resident of Hamilton township, and an Adams County 
school teacher, was literally suffocated to death Saturday morning before he 
could be rescued by fellow workmen.  He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 
Mummert.

The distressing accident occurred between ten and eleven o'clock on the farm of 
G. Allen Yohe, clerk to the county commissioners.  Young Mummert with his 
brothers and several other young men had been engaged in cutting down a large 
tree which stood on the banks of the Big Conewago.  The tree was felled 
successfully and they then commenced to trim off the limbs.  As one of the limbs 
fell under the strokes of the axe, the weight of the main body of the tree was 
released and it bore down on the men.  All got out of the way except the 
unfortunate Mummert youth who was crushed beneath it, his body being doubled up 
and his respiration almost entirely cut off.

Frantic efforts were at once made to release him from his perilous position and 
the others finally did succeed in getting him out from under the ponderous 
timber.  His heart was still beating when he was finally released, but death 
occurred in a few moments.  The body was tenderly carried to the Yohe house but 
was later in the morning removed to the Mummert home on the adjoining farm.  The 
members of the family are completely prostrated with grief.

Young Mummert was one of the most promising fellows in the eastern part of the 
county.  He was graduated from the Abbottstown High School last year and was a 
teacher of Oakwood School, Reading township, for the past term.  He attained 
considerable prominence at the time of the county spelling match last spring by 
riding on a bicycle from Abbottstown to Gettysburg and return.  His efforts were 
rewarded when he won second prize in the final spell-down.  He was a stalwart 
youth, of fine physique, and mental powers, and his death is most untimely.  He 
was aged 23 years.

He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mummert, and these brothers and 
sisters, George, Andrew, Daniel, Margaret, Beulah, Nettie, and Mary, at home, 
and Mrs. Annie Staub, of New Oxford. 


The Hanover Herald – Saturday, April 1, 1916