OBIT: Charles Edward Kroh, 1916, Hanover, York County, PA

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Charles E. Kroh

Seized with an attack of acute indigestion at a late hour Saturday night, which 
proved fatal, Charles Edward Kroh, was found dead on the back porch of his home 
on Locust Street extended about 7 o’clock Sunday morning.

The deceased, earlier in the evening, had imbibed freely and finished up with 
the best part of a watermelon, it is said.  He returned home about midnight, and 
one of the members of the family shortly afterward found him in the back yard in 
apparently his usual health.  That was the last seen of him until 7 o’clock 
Sunday morning when he was found dead on the back porch by a stepson, J. H. 
Donsen.  Mr. M. M. Fleagle was called who pronounced death due to acute 
indigestion.  He was aged 51 years, 6 months and 25 days.

The deceased was a son of John Kroh, of York Street.  He leaves his wife, Mrs. 
Mary Kroh, widow of the late John Shanebrook, to whom he was married four years 
ago; also three children by his first wife, Charles, John and William; his 
father, one sister, Miss Lizzie Kroh, and the following step-children:  J. H. 
Donsen, George Shanebrook, Mrs. John Musselman, Mrs. William Musselman, Mrs. 
Frank Jacobs, Mrs. John Feltch and Miss Blanche Shanebrook, all of Hanover.

Funeral Tuesday afternoon, services at the house, Rev. H. A. Snook, officiating.  
Interment in Mt. Olivet cemetery.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, July 29, 1916