OBIT: Lewis Albert COLEMAN, 1940, Brothersvalley Township, Somerset County, PA

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LEWIS ALBERT COLEMAN

Coleman Killed by Hit-Run Car

Aged Brothersvalley Farmer Slain While Walking on Highway

  Lewis Albert Coleman, 75, one of the oldest and best known farmers of 
Brothersvalley Township was struck and killed by a hit-run automobile while 
walking on the Berlin-Roxbury road, about a quarter of a mile northeast of 
Berlin, last Saturday evening.
  The tragedy happened in front of the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. 
and Mrs. D. F. Wyand, whom he was going to visit.  Andrew Horchner, Jr., of 
Meyersdale, was approaching the scene of the tragedy in his own car and 
witnessed a car approaching from the opposite direction hit the aged man and 
knock him off the paved road.
  The "death car" was traveling from Berlin toward Roxbury.  Horchner was 
traveling from Roxbury to Berlin.
  Young Horchner continued a short distance to East End Berlin, where he could 
turn around and go back, to see if he could render aid.  Meanwhile, the hit and 
run car had disappeared without coming to a halt.
  Coleman was tossed on the eastern berm of the highway, where Horchner found 
him.  The victim was carried into the Wyant home, where he was pronounced dead 
by Berlin doctors who were summoned by phone.
  Death was attributed to compound fractures of both legs, a dislocation of the 
right shoulder, a crushed chest and a possible fracture of the skull.  The right 
ear was torn off.  A few pieces of broken metal believed to have been broken off 
the car which struck Coleman are vital clues by which officers hope to trace the 
hit and run driver.
  Lewis Albert Coleman was born August 1, 1865.  His wife, Annie (Hittie) 
Coleman passed away in 1900.
  Surviving are a son, John Coleman, and a daughter, Mrs. Ada Weyand, both of 
Brothersvalley Township.  Mr. Coleman had been making his home at the residences 
of his children, alternatively.
  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in Hay's Reformed Church, 
with Rev. Dr. D. S. Stephan, pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Berlin, and 
Rev. F. D. Witmer, Mt. Zion charge pastor, officiating.  Interment in the church 
cemetery, under the direction of J. N. Johnson and Son, Berlin morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, November 28, 1940