OBIT: David Elliott WEBB, 1936, Mount Union, Huntingdon County, PA

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FARMER FOUND DEAD IN MOUNT UNION LOT

  MOUNT UNION, May 11 - David Elliott Webb, aged 58, who operated a farm 
north of Mount Union, in Wayne township, Mifflin county was found dead in a 
vacant lot between Jefferson and Division streets in North Mount Union Sunday 
morning between 1 and 2 o'clock.
  Coroner Dr. W. B. West of Huntingdon, Sheriff Steele and Deputy Sheriff 
William Foster were summoned and after looking over the ground ordered the 
body removed to the Dunmire funeral home. The cause of death remains a 
mystery. There was a mark on the head, which could have been received in a 
fall and there was a bottle of whiskey lying on the ground nearby, but 
officials think this was a ruse, since Mr. Webb was not known to have been 
drinking and the mortician said there was no odor of liquor when he prepared 
the body for interment. An investigation is being conducted by the coroner 
and local and county officers.
  Mr. Webb was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Strand) Webb and was born at 
Shade Gap on Sept. 17, 1877, one of six children, all deceased except one 
sister, Mrs. Belle Miller of Decorum. Several nieces and nephews also 
survive. He was never married and had been operating the James King farm in 
Wayne township.
  Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the 
home of a nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. John Minnick, in North Mount Union, 
in charge of Rev. Arthur Hill. Interment will be made in the Odd Fellows 
cemetery.

Archie Claar Obituary Collection, Vol. 6 (1936), page 76.