OBIT: William WIGHAMAN, 1873, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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WIGHAMAN - William Wighaman of this place, was found dead in his bed on 
Sunday afternoon last. He had been spreeing for a couple of weeks, and 
his constitution was quite shattered. He had stopped drinking the day 
before, and was taking medicine to brace up his shattered constitution 
and enable him to sleep. Sunday evening Esquire Leet held an inquest on 
the body, and the jury found that they believed he died from the 
effects of intemperance. Who sold this poor, unfortunate, but honest 
and kind-hearted man, the fatal poison? If the violaters of the law in 
Shantytown, or elsewhere, where he procured it, should get their dues, 
the penitentiary would have more inmates.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, October 1, 1873