Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Morehead, Caleb G. December 9, 1870
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: December 15 & 22, 1870
C. G. Morehead Attacked by Son
A sad affair took place in Rostraver township, Westmoreland county, a few days ago,
which the Greensburg Herald thus details: A young man by the name of Morehead, who
is not right, mentally, attacked his father, Mr. C. G. Morehead. while at breakfast,
with a hatchet, and cut him so badly in the head that he cannot live. Dr. J. L.
Vanvoorhis, who attended the wounded man, took out quite a large piece of the
fractured skull immediately over the brain, laying bare that organ. The old man is
still living, but bereft of reason. After the young man had, as he supposed, killed
the father, he drove the balance of the family out of the house, and fastened
himself in. An officer came from West Newton and arrested young Morehead. 
Caleb Morehead, of Rostraver township, Westmoreland county, who was so fearfully cut
and beaten with a hatchet, by his insane son, died of his injuries on the 9th inst.



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