A blast from a 12-gauge shotgun Monday evening ended the life of Wilbur C. Shipman, 53, owner of the Crossroads Grocery Store, five miles south of U.S. 50 on the Higgins Switch road.
Death was attributed to accidental discharge of the shotgun by a Coroner's inquest, impaneled at the scene by Richland County Deputy Coroner Robert Schaub.
Mr. Shipman told his wife he was going duck hunting, presumably at one of the farm ponds in the area. His young son, Larry, 9, was out with his dog at the time and returned and Mrs. Shipman told him his father had gone hunting. He decided to join him and left the house to find him. He walked north from the store across a field and discovered his father's body lying near a fence about 250 yards from the store.
Mr. Shipman is survived by his wife, Mina, two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Null and Sally Ann, 13, and two sons, Larry, 9, and George, 11. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Laura Moseley of Flora, and three sisters, Eleanor Hale and Susie Coulter of Clay City and Pauline Blau of Fondulac, WI.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Chapel of Easley-Padgett Funeral Home at Clay City with interment in Clay City cemetery.
Mr. Shipman was originally a resident of Clay City area before he began operating the Crossroads store.
Published in the Olney Advocate, Thursday, November 3, 1955.
Death was attributed to accidental discharge of the shotgun by a Coroner's inquest, impaneled at the scene by Richland County Deputy Coroner Robert Schaub.
Mr. Shipman told his wife he was going duck hunting, presumably at one of the farm ponds in the area. His young son, Larry, 9, was out with his dog at the time and returned and Mrs. Shipman told him his father had gone hunting. He decided to join him and left the house to find him. He walked north from the store across a field and discovered his father's body lying near a fence about 250 yards from the store.
Mr. Shipman is survived by his wife, Mina, two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Null and Sally Ann, 13, and two sons, Larry, 9, and George, 11. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Laura Moseley of Flora, and three sisters, Eleanor Hale and Susie Coulter of Clay City and Pauline Blau of Fondulac, WI.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Chapel of Easley-Padgett Funeral Home at Clay City with interment in Clay City cemetery.
Mr. Shipman was originally a resident of Clay City area before he began operating the Crossroads store.
Published in the Olney Advocate, Thursday, November 3, 1955.
A blast from a 12-gauge shotgun Monday evening ended the life of Wilbur C. Shipman, 53, owner of the Crossroads Grocery Store, five miles south of U.S. 50 on the Higgins Switch road.
Death was attributed to accidental discharge of the shotgun by a Coroner's inquest, impaneled at the scene by Richland County Deputy Coroner Robert Schaub.
Mr. Shipman told his wife he was going duck hunting, presumably at one of the farm ponds in the area. His young son, Larry, 9, was out with his dog at the time and returned and Mrs. Shipman told him his father had gone hunting. He decided to join him and left the house to find him. He walked north from the store across a field and discovered his father's body lying near a fence about 250 yards from the store.
Mr. Shipman is survived by his wife, Mina, two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Null and Sally Ann, 13, and two sons, Larry, 9, and George, 11. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Laura Moseley of Flora, and three sisters, Eleanor Hale and Susie Coulter of Clay City and Pauline Blau of Fondulac, WI.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Chapel of Easley-Padgett Funeral Home at Clay City with interment in Clay City cemetery.
Mr. Shipman was originally a resident of Clay City area before he began operating the Crossroads store.
Published in the Olney Advocate, Thursday, November 3, 1955.
Death was attributed to accidental discharge of the shotgun by a Coroner's inquest, impaneled at the scene by Richland County Deputy Coroner Robert Schaub.
Mr. Shipman told his wife he was going duck hunting, presumably at one of the farm ponds in the area. His young son, Larry, 9, was out with his dog at the time and returned and Mrs. Shipman told him his father had gone hunting. He decided to join him and left the house to find him. He walked north from the store across a field and discovered his father's body lying near a fence about 250 yards from the store.
Mr. Shipman is survived by his wife, Mina, two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Null and Sally Ann, 13, and two sons, Larry, 9, and George, 11. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Laura Moseley of Flora, and three sisters, Eleanor Hale and Susie Coulter of Clay City and Pauline Blau of Fondulac, WI.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Chapel of Easley-Padgett Funeral Home at Clay City with interment in Clay City cemetery.
Mr. Shipman was originally a resident of Clay City area before he began operating the Crossroads store.
Published in the Olney Advocate, Thursday, November 3, 1955.
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