OBIT: George C. HAMILTON, 1919, Cassville, Huntingdon County, PA

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BODY OF A SUICIDE IS FOUND IN FIELD
G. C. Hamilton, of Cassville, Had Been in Ill Health for Some Time

  George C. Hamilton, a teacher in the vicinity of Cassville for a 
number of years, committed suicide by shooting himself through the 
forehead, probably last Friday evening.  He had been stopping at the 
Jackson House in Huntingdon for about ten days, having come here from 
Montoursville, where he had been staying with a sister on account of 
his ill health since resigning abut Christmas from a clerical position 
with the Cambria Steel company at Johnstown.  When he did not come back 
to his boarding place, it was feared something was wrong on account of 
his melancholy condition, and inquiry was made by phone to Cassville, 
but he had not come there.  On Monday about 1 o'clock Chester Hardy and 
William Sweetser, who had seen him last in the vicinity of Westbrook's 
ice house, made a search up the hollow, and found the body in the field 
at the opening of the ravine into the ridge.  He had over $100 in his 
pocket, a gold watch, and a notice from a bank that his note for $2000 
would be due on March 12.  George Hamilton was aged about thirty-five 
and was a son of the late Dr. A. J. Hamilton, of Cassville and Mrs. 
Martha Hamilton, who now makes her home with her children in Chicago.  
Surviving besides the mother are Dr. W. Mitchell Hamilton of Pittsburg, 
Rebecca, wife of D. K. McMillan, and Miss Lucy, a trained nurse, both 
of Chicago, Mary, wife of J. W. Van Horn, of Montoursville.  The 
remains were taken on Wednesday evening to Mt. Union, and from there on 
Thursday to Jordan cemetery near Orbisonia, where interment was made 
beside his father, who died two years ago this coming May.

Altoona Tribune, Friday Morning, March 14, 1919