Wm. Ansel Tharp Found
Dead in Barn With
Bullet in Heart
Apparently despondent because of ill health, William Ansel Tharp, 53, of Sycamore, R. D. 1, near Hopewell, was found by his daughter Margaret, 9, in his barn about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, October 18, with a pumpkin-ball bullet in his heart, inflicted by a 12-gauge shotgun, found at his side.
A farewell note written with pencil on an old shingle was found in the dead man's pocket, which led Coroner Raymond C. Adamson, who investigated, to accept despondency because of ill health as the motive.
Mr. Tharp, a well known Center Township blacksmith and farmer, had left his home at about 8:30 Saturday morning. His family were not alarmed when he failed to return within several hours, as he had been accustomed to leaving the house and not returning for some time. When he failed to return after most of day had passed, however, his daughter went to investigate and found her father's body in the barn. He had apparently been dead for some hours.
Born March 8, 1888, in Center Township, Mr. Tharp was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Polen Tharp, the former of whom is deceased. He was twice married, first to Anna Breese, who died in 1923, and then to Irene Toland, who survives.
Two children: Mrs. Blanche Grim, of Graysville, and Mrs. Kathryn Kalist, of Khedive, survive by his first wife, and seven children: Herbert, Lavaughn, Margaret, Marjorie, Irma Jean, Harry and Madelyn, all at home, survive by his second wife.
A brother and a sister, Roy Tharp, of Wind Ridge, and Mrs. Mabel Garrettson, of Waynesburg, also survive.
THARP - Funeral services for William Ansel Tharp will be held Tuesday afternoon, October 21, at 2 o'clock, from the home near Hopewell with the Rev. J. Nelson Jackaway officiating. Interment will be in Rosemont Cemetery. Friends will be received at the home at any time. Ralph H. Scott, Rogersville funeral director, is in charge of funeral arrangements. 10-20
Source - "Democrat Messenger" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Monday, October 20, 1941
Dead in Barn With
Bullet in Heart
Apparently despondent because of ill health, William Ansel Tharp, 53, of Sycamore, R. D. 1, near Hopewell, was found by his daughter Margaret, 9, in his barn about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, October 18, with a pumpkin-ball bullet in his heart, inflicted by a 12-gauge shotgun, found at his side.
A farewell note written with pencil on an old shingle was found in the dead man's pocket, which led Coroner Raymond C. Adamson, who investigated, to accept despondency because of ill health as the motive.
Mr. Tharp, a well known Center Township blacksmith and farmer, had left his home at about 8:30 Saturday morning. His family were not alarmed when he failed to return within several hours, as he had been accustomed to leaving the house and not returning for some time. When he failed to return after most of day had passed, however, his daughter went to investigate and found her father's body in the barn. He had apparently been dead for some hours.
Born March 8, 1888, in Center Township, Mr. Tharp was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Polen Tharp, the former of whom is deceased. He was twice married, first to Anna Breese, who died in 1923, and then to Irene Toland, who survives.
Two children: Mrs. Blanche Grim, of Graysville, and Mrs. Kathryn Kalist, of Khedive, survive by his first wife, and seven children: Herbert, Lavaughn, Margaret, Marjorie, Irma Jean, Harry and Madelyn, all at home, survive by his second wife.
A brother and a sister, Roy Tharp, of Wind Ridge, and Mrs. Mabel Garrettson, of Waynesburg, also survive.
THARP - Funeral services for William Ansel Tharp will be held Tuesday afternoon, October 21, at 2 o'clock, from the home near Hopewell with the Rev. J. Nelson Jackaway officiating. Interment will be in Rosemont Cemetery. Friends will be received at the home at any time. Ralph H. Scott, Rogersville funeral director, is in charge of funeral arrangements. 10-20
Source - "Democrat Messenger" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Monday, October 20, 1941
Wm. Ansel Tharp Found
Dead in Barn With
Bullet in Heart
Apparently despondent because of ill health, William Ansel Tharp, 53, of Sycamore, R. D. 1, near Hopewell, was found by his daughter Margaret, 9, in his barn about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, October 18, with a pumpkin-ball bullet in his heart, inflicted by a 12-gauge shotgun, found at his side.
A farewell note written with pencil on an old shingle was found in the dead man's pocket, which led Coroner Raymond C. Adamson, who investigated, to accept despondency because of ill health as the motive.
Mr. Tharp, a well known Center Township blacksmith and farmer, had left his home at about 8:30 Saturday morning. His family were not alarmed when he failed to return within several hours, as he had been accustomed to leaving the house and not returning for some time. When he failed to return after most of day had passed, however, his daughter went to investigate and found her father's body in the barn. He had apparently been dead for some hours.
Born March 8, 1888, in Center Township, Mr. Tharp was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Polen Tharp, the former of whom is deceased. He was twice married, first to Anna Breese, who died in 1923, and then to Irene Toland, who survives.
Two children: Mrs. Blanche Grim, of Graysville, and Mrs. Kathryn Kalist, of Khedive, survive by his first wife, and seven children: Herbert, Lavaughn, Margaret, Marjorie, Irma Jean, Harry and Madelyn, all at home, survive by his second wife.
A brother and a sister, Roy Tharp, of Wind Ridge, and Mrs. Mabel Garrettson, of Waynesburg, also survive.
THARP - Funeral services for William Ansel Tharp will be held Tuesday afternoon, October 21, at 2 o'clock, from the home near Hopewell with the Rev. J. Nelson Jackaway officiating. Interment will be in Rosemont Cemetery. Friends will be received at the home at any time. Ralph H. Scott, Rogersville funeral director, is in charge of funeral arrangements. 10-20
Source - "Democrat Messenger" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Monday, October 20, 1941
Dead in Barn With
Bullet in Heart
Apparently despondent because of ill health, William Ansel Tharp, 53, of Sycamore, R. D. 1, near Hopewell, was found by his daughter Margaret, 9, in his barn about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, October 18, with a pumpkin-ball bullet in his heart, inflicted by a 12-gauge shotgun, found at his side.
A farewell note written with pencil on an old shingle was found in the dead man's pocket, which led Coroner Raymond C. Adamson, who investigated, to accept despondency because of ill health as the motive.
Mr. Tharp, a well known Center Township blacksmith and farmer, had left his home at about 8:30 Saturday morning. His family were not alarmed when he failed to return within several hours, as he had been accustomed to leaving the house and not returning for some time. When he failed to return after most of day had passed, however, his daughter went to investigate and found her father's body in the barn. He had apparently been dead for some hours.
Born March 8, 1888, in Center Township, Mr. Tharp was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Polen Tharp, the former of whom is deceased. He was twice married, first to Anna Breese, who died in 1923, and then to Irene Toland, who survives.
Two children: Mrs. Blanche Grim, of Graysville, and Mrs. Kathryn Kalist, of Khedive, survive by his first wife, and seven children: Herbert, Lavaughn, Margaret, Marjorie, Irma Jean, Harry and Madelyn, all at home, survive by his second wife.
A brother and a sister, Roy Tharp, of Wind Ridge, and Mrs. Mabel Garrettson, of Waynesburg, also survive.
THARP - Funeral services for William Ansel Tharp will be held Tuesday afternoon, October 21, at 2 o'clock, from the home near Hopewell with the Rev. J. Nelson Jackaway officiating. Interment will be in Rosemont Cemetery. Friends will be received at the home at any time. Ralph H. Scott, Rogersville funeral director, is in charge of funeral arrangements. 10-20
Source - "Democrat Messenger" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Monday, October 20, 1941
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