OBIT: Eberhart WINTERHALTER, 1897, Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA

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SUDDEN DEATH.

Eberhart Winterhalter Drops Dead at
His Boarding House.

Eberhart Winterhalter died suddenly on Sunday afternoon at the residence of 
Henry C. Sears, No. 703 South Queen street, where he boarded.  He was not 
feeling well the past few days but on Sunday at 9 o'clock he ate a hearty 
breakfast.  He retired to his room and slept until three o'clock.  When he came 
down stairs he remarked to Mrs. Sears that he felt unusually well, walked a few 
steps and fell to the floor.  Mrs. Sears called her husband and he responded at 
once, and when he reached Winterhalter and attempted to raise him up he found 
that the man was dead.

Coroner Shank was notified and he empanelled as his jury Frank M. Dorwalt, Henry 
S. Sears, Harry C. Rote, B. Frank Adams, H. T. Thurlow and William Missel.  The 
verdict of the jury was that death resulted from heart disease the result of an 
overtaxed condition of his stomach.  The testimony showed that he had not eaten 
anything for a few days prior to Sunday and that he ate an unnatural quantity of 
provisions for breakfast.

He was 71 years old and emigrated to America in 1860.  He served in the army in 
Company K, 66th New York Volunteers, and shortly after the war came to Lancaster 
county, since which time he worked among farmers.  He has no known relatives.  
His funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon, with interment in the soldiers' 
lot in Lancaster cemetery.

Lancaster Intelligencer, Monday, May 31, 1897