Vitals: Obit: Isaac Crider, 1877: Clinton/Centre Co, PA
  
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  suspect it was one from Lock Haven PA.
  
  Shot While Hunting Pheasants
  
  Mr. Isaac Crider, who resided about a mile this side of Beech Creek, and who is a
  son of P.B. Crider, Esq., of this city was out hunting pheasants in the vicinity of
  Twin Runs, some miles beyond Beech Creek, last Saturday, in company with his
  brother-in-law, Frank Shope, aged about 14 years.  They had hunted all day without
  securing any game, and were returning home in a spring wagon, his doublebarreled
  shot gun lying in the bed of the wagon.  As they were driving along the road, Mr.
  Crider heard the drumming of a pheasant a few rods in advance.  Stopping the horse,
  and, with the words "I am going to have that one anyhow," he jumped from the wagon
  -went to the hind end and was pulling the gun toward him, when the hammer caught on
  the bottom of the wagon, the gun discharged, and the entire load of shot entered in
  his right breast, in an oblique direction, passing toward the heart.  He immediately
  dropped the gun,-with one hand he took hold of the wagon, placing the other over the
  wound but in a moment fell upon the ground face forward.  Young Shope sprang from
  his seat, asked Crider if he was badly hurt,-or dying-but received no answer. 
  Crider never spoke or seemed to recognize Frank after the discharge of the gun-
  apparently life was extinct by the time Frank had reached him.  The boy left the
  body by the roadside, and drove homeward for help.  Half a mile probably from where
  the accident occured, he came upon two hunters, who returned with him, placed the
  body in the wagon, and the lad took up his sad and lonely drive down to Beech Creek,
  some five miles distant.  Here Mr. Rupert took passage with Frank and they proceeded
  to the residence of the deceased.
       Coroner Mader, hearing of the sad affair, visited Beech Creek on Saturday night
  and summoned a jury composed of P.R. Smith, Chas. Lombard(t?), Jacob Mader, John
  Hagan, John Gentzel and William Dunkle, who after hearing the evidence in the case ,
  rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts as above stated.
       On Sunday the body was brought to the residence of his parents in this city,
  (Lock Haven, PA) and the funeral services took place at 2 o'clock on Monday
  afternoon, conducted by Rev. S. Creighton.
       The casket was a beautiful solid walnut, silver trimmings, from the
  establishment of John Bricker.  A silver plate bore this inscription: "Isaac S.
  Crider, Augt. 31, 1847.  Died Nov.17, 1877."  At the head of the casket was a
  beautiful floral design- a broken shaft, composed of white immortelles, entwined
  with evergreens, surmounted by a white dove with outspread wings, bearing in his
  beak an evergreen.  On the casket was a wreath  of immortelles furnished by our
  florist, W.H. Coo(?).  Esq. Messrs. Gep. W. Hipple. Samuel Bitner, J.F. Clark,
   O.S. Houtz, W.H. Andrews and W.F. Satterlee were the pall bearers.  A large circle of
  friends were present to participate in the sad rites attending this sudden
  bereavement.
       The deceased was a little over thirty years old, and leaves a wife and three
  children to mourn his death.