From wife's obituary: ...Her husband, a prominent retired Pennsylvania railroad conductor, was almost instantly killed on the afternoon of October 3, 1928, when accidentally shot by another hunter while hunting squirrel on the J.B. Wallace farm three miles northeast of this city.
STATE OF OHIO
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH #63956
Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, OH
Wm. R. Corbett
White male
Married
Husband of Margaret Ann Corbett
born Nov. 14, 1862 Coshocton Co.
Aged 65 yrs 10 mos 18 ds
Occupation: Retired Freight Conductor, Railway
Father: George Corbett, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Mother: Margaret Norris, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Informant: A.J. Corbett, New Philadelphia
Died Oct. 2, 1928 at 2:20pm
Cause: Shot gun wound of chest: accident
Contributory: While hunting in woods with another man
Test confirming diagnosis: Inquest
J.F. Leirgs, Coroner, Dover, OH
Burial: East Ave Cemetery, Oct. 6, 1928
Undertaker: The Linn Hert Co.
Embalmed
STATE OF OHIO
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH #63956
Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, OH
Wm. R. Corbett
White male
Married
Husband of Margaret Ann Corbett
born Nov. 14, 1862 Coshocton Co.
Aged 65 yrs 10 mos 18 ds
Occupation: Retired Freight Conductor, Railway
Father: George Corbett, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Mother: Margaret Norris, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Informant: A.J. Corbett, New Philadelphia
Died Oct. 2, 1928 at 2:20pm
Cause: Shot gun wound of chest: accident
Contributory: While hunting in woods with another man
Test confirming diagnosis: Inquest
J.F. Leirgs, Coroner, Dover, OH
Burial: East Ave Cemetery, Oct. 6, 1928
Undertaker: The Linn Hert Co.
Embalmed
From wife's obituary: ...Her husband, a prominent retired Pennsylvania railroad conductor, was almost instantly killed on the afternoon of October 3, 1928, when accidentally shot by another hunter while hunting squirrel on the J.B. Wallace farm three miles northeast of this city.
STATE OF OHIO
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH #63956
Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, OH
Wm. R. Corbett
White male
Married
Husband of Margaret Ann Corbett
born Nov. 14, 1862 Coshocton Co.
Aged 65 yrs 10 mos 18 ds
Occupation: Retired Freight Conductor, Railway
Father: George Corbett, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Mother: Margaret Norris, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Informant: A.J. Corbett, New Philadelphia
Died Oct. 2, 1928 at 2:20pm
Cause: Shot gun wound of chest: accident
Contributory: While hunting in woods with another man
Test confirming diagnosis: Inquest
J.F. Leirgs, Coroner, Dover, OH
Burial: East Ave Cemetery, Oct. 6, 1928
Undertaker: The Linn Hert Co.
Embalmed
STATE OF OHIO
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH #63956
Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, OH
Wm. R. Corbett
White male
Married
Husband of Margaret Ann Corbett
born Nov. 14, 1862 Coshocton Co.
Aged 65 yrs 10 mos 18 ds
Occupation: Retired Freight Conductor, Railway
Father: George Corbett, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Mother: Margaret Norris, b. Coshocton Co., OH
Informant: A.J. Corbett, New Philadelphia
Died Oct. 2, 1928 at 2:20pm
Cause: Shot gun wound of chest: accident
Contributory: While hunting in woods with another man
Test confirming diagnosis: Inquest
J.F. Leirgs, Coroner, Dover, OH
Burial: East Ave Cemetery, Oct. 6, 1928
Undertaker: The Linn Hert Co.
Embalmed
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