OBIT: David CLOSE, 1941, Wellersburg, Somerset County, PA

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DAVID CLOSE

Found Dead By School Children After Long Hunt
Fell From Hickory Tree When Overcome By Heart Attack

  David Close, aged 43 years, was found dead last Thursday afternoon, October 
16, 1941, about two o'clock on the farm of James Lepley, Wellersburg, by a group 
of school children.  Death was attributed to a heart attack and fall from a 
tree.
  Mr. Close, an employee of the Mt. Savage Firebrick Company, at the clay mines 
along the Mt. Savage Road, worked on Wednesday, came home apparently in the best 
of health and ate his supper.  At 4:15 he told his aged mother, with whom he 
lived, he was going into the woods for hickory nuts.  His mother became alarmed 
when he did not return on Thursday morning and notified authorities in 
Wellersburg.  A group of volunteers began searching the wooded area in which 
Close was reported to have gone.
  At noon the elementary school was dismissed and the children formed a second 
searching party.  The body was found by the children about 1000 feet from the 
school house on the Lepley farm, at the base of the hickory nut tree from which 
Close had apparently fallen.  A verdict of accidental death was returned by Dr. 
Sass, Boswell, Somerset County Coroner.  The body was taken to Stein's funeral 
home where it remained till Saturday.
  Services were conducted by Rev. Wright, pastor of the Cumberland First 
Methodist Church.  He was laid to rest in the family lot in the Wellersburg 
Cemetery.
  In addition to his mother, Mrs. Julia Close, he is survived by one sister, 
Alice Close of Friedens; one brother, Theodore Close of Dundalk, Md., one half-
brother, J. R. Dom, Cumberland, Md.; one half-sister, Mrs. Sara Black of 
Pittsburgh.  He also leaves a nephew, Corporal Duane J. Close in the U.S. Army 
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Meyersdale Republican, October 23, 1941