OBIT: Joseph SHULTZABARGER, 1895, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Joseph Shultzabarger Dies at His Home on Seventh Avenue This Morning.

  Joseph Clyde Shultzabarger the eldest son of John W. and Dosla Shultzabarger 
died at the home of his parents, 2205 Seventh avenue, this morning at 10:15 
o'clock of hemorrhages, the result of his being shot in the face while he and 
his cousin, Raymond Wagner, were playing with a loaded revolver at the 
deceased's home on Monday morning, Spetember 9, the account of which the 
MIRROR gave at the time.
  The young man has never been able to leave his bed since the fatal accident. 
He had suffered greatly during the past week, but it was thought he would 
survive. Last night he was attacked with two severe hemorrhages which greatly 
weakened his condition, and this morning, at the time above stated, passed 
into eternity. He was aged 16 years, 4 months and 4 days. Besides his parents 
his is survived by two brothers, George and Wesley; also by three sisters, 
Katie, May and Anna.
  The funeral will take place Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock, services being 
conducted by Rev. George M. Hoke, pastor of Simpson Methodist church; 
interment in Oak Ridge cemetery.
  Before dying, Joseph, who was conscious to the last, despite the great pain 
which he endured during his confinement, said that his cousin, Raymond Wagner, 
was not to blame for his death, as it was purely accidental.
  Shultzabarger told his father that he pulled the revolver out of the pocket 
of Wagner, who was about to start for his home at Royer's station, and was 
examining the revolver which they believed empty.
  He handed the gun back to Wagner and asked him if it was a self-acting one. 
Wagner went to show him how it worked, when it went off, the bullet entering 
his right cheek about an inch and a half from the corner of his mouth and 
lodged in the neck. Wagner is perfectly innocent and nothing will be done with 
him whatever.

Altoona Mirror, September 28, 1895

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