Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Ruth, Samuel July 27, 1878
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Daily Local News, July 29, 1878
Daily Local News
July 29, 1878

A Sad and Sudden Death

Samuel Ruth, of Phoenixville, died suddenly on Saturday morning, and in a 
manner that was exceedingly painful to his family.  Deceased had been ill for 
some months past with a pulmonary disease, but had been much better recently, 
and was able on Friday to ride out in a carriage.  On the morning of his death, 
Mrs. Ruth arose early to go to market, and left her husband in the sitting 
room, while a niece was in a room adjoining, and a son of feeble mind was 
laying in the yard.  During he absence the niece had occasion to go to the back 
part of the house, and was horrified to find her uncle lying with his neck on 
the edge of a trough at the pump, and blood flowing from his mouth in great 
quantities. The boy stated that his father had fallen with a spittoon in his 
hand.  The young lady called in the neighbors, who removed him to his house, 
but found that life was extinct.  From the statements of the boy and the 
circumstances surrounding the case, it was evident that deceased had been 
attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs and finding that the spittoon he was 
using would hot hold the blood that was flowing from him so rapidly, had picked 
it up and carried it outside the building, where he became so weak from the 
loss of blood that he probably fainted and fell in the position we have 
described.  The anguish of his wife on her return to find hat her partner had 
died during her absence beggars description.  Deceased was 57 years of age, had 
lived in Phoenixville about 25 years, was a painter by trade, and was highly 
esteemed by the entire community in which he resided.


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