Accidentally Shot
The Frightful Termination of a Hunting Party Which Resulted in the Death of Scott Barney.
While returning from hunting at about four o'clock p.m., Sunday, Oct. 6 with a party of three others, his brother Bart Barney, C. M. Hopkins and Ed Hutchinson, Scott Barney was accidentally shot and killed. They were all in a carriage, Ed and Scott on the front seat and the other two behind, and when on Frank Bertram's farm a few miles east of town the accident occurred. None of the party sees to realize exactly how it happened, but it is supposed that his gun slipped from the carriage the hammer striking the edge causing the discharge. The contents entered the right side of the neck, passing out at the back of the head, severing the jugular vein and breaking the neck. Death was instantaneous as the deceased never moved or spoke. His body was immediately taken to the home of his brother-in-law, Wm. Stapleton, where he boarded. It was the worse shock the community has received for a long time.
W. S. Barney was born in Hampshire County, W. Va. March 2, 1879 and was 22 years, 7 months and 3 days old at the time of his untimely death. He has lived with his parents in this county since early childhood. His father and mother had left for their old home in the east but two days previously and the terrible news will fall heavily upon them. He was an employee of the Signal office and was learning the trade rapidly. He had been somewhat wild in former years but of late had manifested a desire to make a man of himself and he was fast convincing his friends that he meant to utilize his ability to a good purpose. The write of this sketch was his friend and was trying to help him in every way. And we can only speak in the highest terms of him. He was diligent and faithful, and entirely trustworthy and in his untimely death we feel a deep personal loss. There is always a turning point in every life, and Scott had entered the right path and his death is a sorrowful misfortune.
The funeral services were conducted from the M. E. church in this city, Monday, October 8, 1902 by Rev. E. M. Crow, who spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing relatives and friends, in as powerful and eloquent a sermon as we ever heard on a like occasion. The remains were interred in the Greensburg cemetery.
It is done. A life full of youthful buoyancy and promise is finished. Created, as are all things for a purpose, to fill some niche in the great wheel of the universe, that place is now vacant. There is not one of God's creatures so small or so insignificant from which we may not learn some lesson.
The life of the departed was made up of true and loyal friendships. A man's duty to his fellowman should not be reckoned as the least of human virtues, and he who is loyal to his friends touches low down upon the skirts of Christianity. Our earthly vision cannot penetrate the darkness beyond. We can only trust in the forgiving, loving face of the Master and hope that all is golden on the other shore.
Kiowa County Signal and Kiowa County Times Consolidated
October 10, 1902, Friday Vol. XVII No. 44
The Frightful Termination of a Hunting Party Which Resulted in the Death of Scott Barney.
While returning from hunting at about four o'clock p.m., Sunday, Oct. 6 with a party of three others, his brother Bart Barney, C. M. Hopkins and Ed Hutchinson, Scott Barney was accidentally shot and killed. They were all in a carriage, Ed and Scott on the front seat and the other two behind, and when on Frank Bertram's farm a few miles east of town the accident occurred. None of the party sees to realize exactly how it happened, but it is supposed that his gun slipped from the carriage the hammer striking the edge causing the discharge. The contents entered the right side of the neck, passing out at the back of the head, severing the jugular vein and breaking the neck. Death was instantaneous as the deceased never moved or spoke. His body was immediately taken to the home of his brother-in-law, Wm. Stapleton, where he boarded. It was the worse shock the community has received for a long time.
W. S. Barney was born in Hampshire County, W. Va. March 2, 1879 and was 22 years, 7 months and 3 days old at the time of his untimely death. He has lived with his parents in this county since early childhood. His father and mother had left for their old home in the east but two days previously and the terrible news will fall heavily upon them. He was an employee of the Signal office and was learning the trade rapidly. He had been somewhat wild in former years but of late had manifested a desire to make a man of himself and he was fast convincing his friends that he meant to utilize his ability to a good purpose. The write of this sketch was his friend and was trying to help him in every way. And we can only speak in the highest terms of him. He was diligent and faithful, and entirely trustworthy and in his untimely death we feel a deep personal loss. There is always a turning point in every life, and Scott had entered the right path and his death is a sorrowful misfortune.
The funeral services were conducted from the M. E. church in this city, Monday, October 8, 1902 by Rev. E. M. Crow, who spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing relatives and friends, in as powerful and eloquent a sermon as we ever heard on a like occasion. The remains were interred in the Greensburg cemetery.
It is done. A life full of youthful buoyancy and promise is finished. Created, as are all things for a purpose, to fill some niche in the great wheel of the universe, that place is now vacant. There is not one of God's creatures so small or so insignificant from which we may not learn some lesson.
The life of the departed was made up of true and loyal friendships. A man's duty to his fellowman should not be reckoned as the least of human virtues, and he who is loyal to his friends touches low down upon the skirts of Christianity. Our earthly vision cannot penetrate the darkness beyond. We can only trust in the forgiving, loving face of the Master and hope that all is golden on the other shore.
Kiowa County Signal and Kiowa County Times Consolidated
October 10, 1902, Friday Vol. XVII No. 44
Accidentally Shot
The Frightful Termination of a Hunting Party Which Resulted in the Death of Scott Barney.
While returning from hunting at about four o'clock p.m., Sunday, Oct. 6 with a party of three others, his brother Bart Barney, C. M. Hopkins and Ed Hutchinson, Scott Barney was accidentally shot and killed. They were all in a carriage, Ed and Scott on the front seat and the other two behind, and when on Frank Bertram's farm a few miles east of town the accident occurred. None of the party sees to realize exactly how it happened, but it is supposed that his gun slipped from the carriage the hammer striking the edge causing the discharge. The contents entered the right side of the neck, passing out at the back of the head, severing the jugular vein and breaking the neck. Death was instantaneous as the deceased never moved or spoke. His body was immediately taken to the home of his brother-in-law, Wm. Stapleton, where he boarded. It was the worse shock the community has received for a long time.
W. S. Barney was born in Hampshire County, W. Va. March 2, 1879 and was 22 years, 7 months and 3 days old at the time of his untimely death. He has lived with his parents in this county since early childhood. His father and mother had left for their old home in the east but two days previously and the terrible news will fall heavily upon them. He was an employee of the Signal office and was learning the trade rapidly. He had been somewhat wild in former years but of late had manifested a desire to make a man of himself and he was fast convincing his friends that he meant to utilize his ability to a good purpose. The write of this sketch was his friend and was trying to help him in every way. And we can only speak in the highest terms of him. He was diligent and faithful, and entirely trustworthy and in his untimely death we feel a deep personal loss. There is always a turning point in every life, and Scott had entered the right path and his death is a sorrowful misfortune.
The funeral services were conducted from the M. E. church in this city, Monday, October 8, 1902 by Rev. E. M. Crow, who spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing relatives and friends, in as powerful and eloquent a sermon as we ever heard on a like occasion. The remains were interred in the Greensburg cemetery.
It is done. A life full of youthful buoyancy and promise is finished. Created, as are all things for a purpose, to fill some niche in the great wheel of the universe, that place is now vacant. There is not one of God's creatures so small or so insignificant from which we may not learn some lesson.
The life of the departed was made up of true and loyal friendships. A man's duty to his fellowman should not be reckoned as the least of human virtues, and he who is loyal to his friends touches low down upon the skirts of Christianity. Our earthly vision cannot penetrate the darkness beyond. We can only trust in the forgiving, loving face of the Master and hope that all is golden on the other shore.
Kiowa County Signal and Kiowa County Times Consolidated
October 10, 1902, Friday Vol. XVII No. 44
The Frightful Termination of a Hunting Party Which Resulted in the Death of Scott Barney.
While returning from hunting at about four o'clock p.m., Sunday, Oct. 6 with a party of three others, his brother Bart Barney, C. M. Hopkins and Ed Hutchinson, Scott Barney was accidentally shot and killed. They were all in a carriage, Ed and Scott on the front seat and the other two behind, and when on Frank Bertram's farm a few miles east of town the accident occurred. None of the party sees to realize exactly how it happened, but it is supposed that his gun slipped from the carriage the hammer striking the edge causing the discharge. The contents entered the right side of the neck, passing out at the back of the head, severing the jugular vein and breaking the neck. Death was instantaneous as the deceased never moved or spoke. His body was immediately taken to the home of his brother-in-law, Wm. Stapleton, where he boarded. It was the worse shock the community has received for a long time.
W. S. Barney was born in Hampshire County, W. Va. March 2, 1879 and was 22 years, 7 months and 3 days old at the time of his untimely death. He has lived with his parents in this county since early childhood. His father and mother had left for their old home in the east but two days previously and the terrible news will fall heavily upon them. He was an employee of the Signal office and was learning the trade rapidly. He had been somewhat wild in former years but of late had manifested a desire to make a man of himself and he was fast convincing his friends that he meant to utilize his ability to a good purpose. The write of this sketch was his friend and was trying to help him in every way. And we can only speak in the highest terms of him. He was diligent and faithful, and entirely trustworthy and in his untimely death we feel a deep personal loss. There is always a turning point in every life, and Scott had entered the right path and his death is a sorrowful misfortune.
The funeral services were conducted from the M. E. church in this city, Monday, October 8, 1902 by Rev. E. M. Crow, who spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing relatives and friends, in as powerful and eloquent a sermon as we ever heard on a like occasion. The remains were interred in the Greensburg cemetery.
It is done. A life full of youthful buoyancy and promise is finished. Created, as are all things for a purpose, to fill some niche in the great wheel of the universe, that place is now vacant. There is not one of God's creatures so small or so insignificant from which we may not learn some lesson.
The life of the departed was made up of true and loyal friendships. A man's duty to his fellowman should not be reckoned as the least of human virtues, and he who is loyal to his friends touches low down upon the skirts of Christianity. Our earthly vision cannot penetrate the darkness beyond. We can only trust in the forgiving, loving face of the Master and hope that all is golden on the other shore.
Kiowa County Signal and Kiowa County Times Consolidated
October 10, 1902, Friday Vol. XVII No. 44
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