OBIT: James WILLIAMS, 1904, South Fork, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 29, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 18 Young Man Found Dead James Williams of South Fork Meets with Fatal Accident. Lifeless Body Found Floating in the Conemaugh River While walking along the south fork of the Conemaugh at a point about a mile north of South Fork on Tuesday, William Brain discovered the dead body of a man lying face upward in the stream. Without waiting to investigate, Mr. Brain returned to South Fork and notified George Brothers, the undertakers, who had the remains removed to their establishment. Investigation revealed the fact that they were those of James Williams, aged twenty-four, a miner of South Fork. How he came to his strange end is still a mystery. Williams was last seen alive about 3:30 Monday afternoon. When found the body was lying near the bank of the stream, face upward and with nothing but the head and feet showing above the water. From all appearances it had floated some distance down stream before lodging between two large boulders which prevented its drifting further. All these circumstances would lead to the conclusion that the young man had come to his death by accidentally falling into the creek, if it were not that the situation was complicated by the existence of two large cuts on the back of his head. Judging by appearances these might have been caused either by some blunt instrument or by a backward fall upon the rocks which line the banks of South Fork. The dead man was a son of Constable James Williams of South Fork and made his home with his parents. He was unmarried.