OBIT: Son MOSSER, 1846, West Township, Huntingdon County, PA

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Dreadful Accident.

  On Tuesday of last week, a son of Mr. Samuel Mosser, of West township 
in this county aged about eleven years, was engaged in harrowing a 
field that had been sown in oats, when his horse took fright it is 
supposed from one of the swingle trees coming unhooked from the butt 
chain.  When the horses commenced running, the boy being greatly 
frightened leaped from the near horse which he was riding, but 
unfortunately did not get away from them far enough and the harrow 
struck his forehead and tore and fractured his skull to an alarming 
extent.  A part of his brains were picked up about fifteen feet from 
where he was lieing.  We have not learned whether he is yet dead, but 
it is supposed that he can in no event recover.

The Messenger, Huntingdon, Pa., April 22, 1846