CHERNEY, Emil J. 1877-1948
CHERNEY, HELM, MILLER, BERWALD, PETERMAN
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/7/2015 at 23:56:50
[Waterloo Daily Courier, Thursday, January 29, 1948, Waterloo, Iowa]
FARMER DIES FROM GUN WOUND
Cedar Falls, Iowa - Emil J. Cherney, who resided on a 60-acre farm a mile west of the Cedar Falls Gun club grounds five miles north of Cedar Falls on highway 218, was dead Thursday, the victim of a hunting accident.
He was fatally shot while crawling through a wire fence on his farm, according to Dr. Sidney D. Smith, Black Hawk county coroner, who was called to the scene of the tragedy late Wednesday. He reached the scene shortly before 5 p.m. which was believed to have been about two hours after Cherney died.
When Cherney's body was found by one of his neighbors, it was lying near the fence through which he had apparently come. In some manner not determined the gun had discharged, the bullet striking Cherney in the left breast, according to Coroner Smith.
Apparently Cherney had stumbled and fallen as he got through the fence. The gun was lying beneath the body, the coroner said. His investigation convinced him that Cherneys death was accidental.
Cherney was a retired railroad man. He had been an engineer on the Illinois Central system for 43 years and resided in Waterloo. He retired on pension in 1943 and purchased a small farm south of Janesville near the Washington township church in Black Hawk county in the neighborhood where his wife had lived as a girl. They moved onto the place soon after his retirement.
Mr. Cherney was born in Mitchell county, August 21, 1877, and married Arley Helm of Washington township January 28, 1905, at Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Surviving besides his wife, are three sons, Richard A.; Reinbeck; Milford S,, Charles City; Maj. Max R., stationed at March Field, California; two daughters, Mrs. Don D. Miller, St. Joseph, Michigan; Mrs. H. T. Berwald, Battle Creek, Michigan; one brother, Joseph, St. Ansgar, and a sister Mary Peterman, Lyle, Minnesota.
The body was taken to the Dahl Funeral Home in Cedar Falls.
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