OBIT: Isaac Crider, 1877, of interest in Centre Co, PA 

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Shot While Hunting Pheasants

  Mr. Isaac Crider, who resided about a mile this side of Beech Creek, 
and who is a son of P. B. Crider, Esq., of this city was out hunting 
pheasants in the vicinity of Twin Runs, some miles beyond Beech Creek, 
last Saturday, in company with his brother-in-law, Frank Shope, aged 
about 14 years.  They had hunted all day without securing any game, and 
were returning home in a spring wagon, his double-barreled shot gun 
lying in the bed of the wagon.  As they were driving along the road, 
Mr. Crider heard the drumming of a pheasant a few rods in advance.  
Stopping the horse, and, with the words "I am going to have that one 
anyhow," he jumped from the wagon - went to the hind end and was 
pulling the gun toward him, when the hammer caught on the bottom of the 
wagon, the gun discharged, and the entire load of shot entered in his 
right breast, in an oblique direction, passing toward the heart.  He 
immediately dropped the gun, - with one hand he took hold of the wagon, 
placing the other over the wound but in a moment fell upon the ground 
face forward.  Young Shope sprang from his seat, asked Crider if he was 
badly hurt,- or dying - but received no answer. Crider never spoke or 
seemed to recognize Frank after the discharge of the gun - apparently 
life was extinct by the time Frank had reached him.  The boy left the 
body by the roadside, and drove homeward for help.  Half a mile 
probably from where the accident occured, he came upon two hunters, who 
returned with him, placed the body in the wagon, and the lad took up 
his sad and lonely drive down to Beech Creek, some five miles distant.  
Here Mr. Rupert took passage with Frank and they proceeded to the 
residence of the deceased.
  Coroner Mader, hearing of the sad affair, visited Beech Creek on 
Saturday night and summoned a jury composed of P. R. Smith, Chas. 
Lombard(t?), Jacob Mader, John Hagan, John Gentzel and William Dunkle, 
who after hearing the evidence in the case, rendered a verdict in 
accordance with the facts as above stated.
  On Sunday the body was brought to the residence of his parents in 
this city, (Lock Haven, PA) and the funeral services took place at 2 
o'clock on Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. S. Creighton.
  The casket was a beautiful solid walnut, silver trimmings, from the 
establishment of John Bricker.  A silver plate bore this inscription: 
"Isaac S. Crider, Augt. 31, 1847.  Died Nov. 17, 1877."  At the head of 
the casket was a beautiful floral design - a broken shaft, composed of 
white immortelles, entwined with evergreens, surmounted by a white dove 
with outspread wings, bearing in his beak an evergreen.  On the casket 
was a wreath  of immortelles furnished by our florist, W. H. Coo(?).  
Esq. Messrs. Gep. W. Hipple. Samuel Bitner, J. F. Clark, O. S. Houtz, 
W. H. Andrews and W. F. Satterlee were the pall bearers.  A large 
circle of friends were present to participate in the sad rites 
attending this sudden bereavement.
  The deceased was a little over thirty years old, and leaves a wife 
and three children to mourn his death.