OBIT: William FRAZER, 1904, Summerhill Township, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, October 14, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 40

Found Dead Near Wilmore, Wilmore, Oct. 12:
 
  While picking coal along the P. R. R. tracks about 8 o'clock this 
morning a little girl named Pearson discovered the dead body of a man 
lying on the left bank of the Conemaugh river directly under the arched 
railroad bridge, a few hundred yards below the local station.  
Investigation showed the remains to be those of William Frazer, 58 
years old, who lived in Summerhill township, about half a mile south of 
here, and who had evidently come to his death by falling from the 
bridge some time during the night. Coroner E. L. Miller, who came to 
Wilmore on the noon train, viewed the body at J. H. Cullen's 
undertaking establishment but decided that an inquest would be 
unnecessary as all the surrounding circumstances pointed to accidental 
death.
  The marks on the body indicate that the man landed on his head, a 
deep fracture of the back of the skull being the only considerable 
injury that could be discovered.  No other bones were broken.
  The dead man is survived by his wife and one son, at home, and these 
two daughters:  Mrs. John Hardy of Pitcairn; and Mrs. William Crum of 
Wilmore.  A 12-year-old son was accidentally shot at Wilmore about 
twelve years ago.