OBIT: Dorothy Harriet SIGMAN, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CHILD STRANGLED IN PECULIAR ACCIDENT

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Sigman Choked in Side of Crib

  Either in falling or in an effort to crawl from the crib bed in which she 
had been put to sleep, Dorothy Harriet Sigman, 17-month-old daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Ralph D. Sigman, of 214 Walnut avenue, was strangled to death by 
catching her head in the framework of the little bed.  The accident happened 
at the family home at 9:45 o'clock Friday evening.
  The child slept in the small crib in a second floor bedroom and was 
slumbering peacefully at 9 o'clock when the room was visited by the parents.  
At 10 o'clock, when about to retire, they were horrified to find the 
lifeless little form on the floor, her head caught in the iron work of the 
bed.  Dr. G. D. Bliss was summoned, but life was extinct before he arrived.
  She was the daughter of Ralph D. and Lulu Blanche (Gardner) Sigman and was 
born October 2, 1917.  Besides the parents, a sister, Mary Florence, 
survives.  The body was taken on Saturday evening to Howard, Centre county, 
where interment was made yesterday.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, March 3, 1919, page 10