Died at the age of 4. The son of William and Mary Ellen Adcock.
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD son of William Adcock, employee in the Buckeye Works, and residing in the southern part of Akron, was fatally shot the other evening by a six-year-old playmate named Howard Rempis. The Rempis child had been left alone at home, and discovering a revolver in one of the chambers of the house had his curiosity aroused, and innocently pointing it at this companion, the weapon was discharged, with the result as stated.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The News-Herald, June 16, 1886. (Hillsboro, Ohio).
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THANKS TO Richard Osburn for the newspaper account of Arthur's death.
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A FOUR-YEAR-OLD son of William Adcock, employee in the Buckeye Works, and residing in the southern part of Akron, was fatally shot the other evening by a six-year-old playmate named Howard Rempis. The Rempis child had been left alone at home, and discovering a revolver in one of the chambers of the house had his curiosity aroused, and innocently pointing it at this companion, the weapon was discharged, with the result as stated.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The News-Herald, June 16, 1886. (Hillsboro, Ohio).
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THANKS TO Richard Osburn for the newspaper account of Arthur's death.
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Died at the age of 4. The son of William and Mary Ellen Adcock.
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD son of William Adcock, employee in the Buckeye Works, and residing in the southern part of Akron, was fatally shot the other evening by a six-year-old playmate named Howard Rempis. The Rempis child had been left alone at home, and discovering a revolver in one of the chambers of the house had his curiosity aroused, and innocently pointing it at this companion, the weapon was discharged, with the result as stated.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The News-Herald, June 16, 1886. (Hillsboro, Ohio).
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THANKS TO Richard Osburn for the newspaper account of Arthur's death.
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A FOUR-YEAR-OLD son of William Adcock, employee in the Buckeye Works, and residing in the southern part of Akron, was fatally shot the other evening by a six-year-old playmate named Howard Rempis. The Rempis child had been left alone at home, and discovering a revolver in one of the chambers of the house had his curiosity aroused, and innocently pointing it at this companion, the weapon was discharged, with the result as stated.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The News-Herald, June 16, 1886. (Hillsboro, Ohio).
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THANKS TO Richard Osburn for the newspaper account of Arthur's death.
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