Fletcher Van Gilder (1891)

ANDERSON, VAN GILDER

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 1/10/2016 at 10:47:14

The Winterset News
Thursday, April 2, 1891
Page 4, Column 3

Accidently Shot.

Fletcher Van Gilder, a young man who learned his trade of blacksmithing with his uncle, Nat Anderson, five or six years ago, was accidently killed by the discharge of a gun while getting out of a boat near Colfax. He had gone down the river hunting with a companion and in stepping out of the boat his gun was discharged, the entire load passing into his breast. He lived but a moment afterward. His aunt Mrs. Anderson went to Colfax Monday morning to attend the funeral. Van Gilder was a resident of Winterset for three years or more and was a young man who had many friends.

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