OBIT: Sarah BAKER, 1907, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Ray Rhoads rhodoray@bellsouth.net Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/ _________________________________________ Miss Sarah Baker Dies While Sitting in Chair Knitting SECOND DEATH IN HALF HOUR Thomas B. Rhoads Overexerted Himself Hunting a Doctor and Succumbed Within half an hour two well-known residents of this city dropped dead in the same room yesterday afternoon. Shortly after 2 o’clock Miss Sarah Baker was found dead in a chair at the home of William Longsdorff 2035 North Sixth street and less than thirty minutes later Thomas B. Rhoads, who summoned medical aid for Miss Baker died in the same room from heart failure super-induced by over-exertion. Died in Her Chair Miss Baker who was seventy-three years old, made her home with the Longsdorf family, and yesterday after the noon-day meal, took some sewing and began work in the sitting room. At 3 o’clock she was found unconscious in her chair, and Mrs. Longsdorf, greatly excited ran out into the street to get some one to summon a physician. Mr. Rhoads who lived at 2016 North Sixth Street, was the first person she met, and he promptly volunteered to secure medical aid. Upon returning to the house Mrs. Longsdorf found that Miss Baker was dead and with the aid of neighbors the body was lifted from the chair and placed on a couch nearby. Meanwhile Mr. Rhoads went to the office of several physicians and finally succeeded in finding one to go to the Longsdorf home. Exertion Too Much For Mr. Rhoads When Mr. Rhoads returned to the Longsdorf home he sat down in a chair to await the arrival of the Physician. Suddenly he arose to his feet with an exclamation of pain and then dropped over on the floor beside the couch on which the dead woman had been laid. The physician arrived about this time and found that Mr. Rhoads was also dead. Word of the deaths was sent to the Coroner’s office and Dr. G. G. Snyder who made the post-mortem examination pronounced Miss Baker’s death due to paralysis, and that of Mr. Rhoads to heart disease. Mr. Rhoads had been troubled with heart disease for some time and his haste and excitement in seeking a physician resulted in the fatal attack. Mr. Rhoads was sixty-five years old and is survived by a wife and daughter Mrs. W. E. Anwyll and four brothers, J.E., D.H., C. H., and James Rhoads. No funeral arrangements have been made. The Patriot, Harrisburg, PA, April 5, 1907, Page 1 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/