Carl Kohler d. 1893

KOHLER

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 5/19/2006 at 10:51:15

Davenport Weekly Leader; Davenport, Scott, Iowa; Wednesday, June 14, 1893

FOUND DEAD
Carl Kohler, A Well Known Resident of Maysville.
His Non-Appearance Causes An Investigation by the Neighbors and They Find Him Cold in Death-
Paralysis of the Heart is the Cause-An Old Bachelor's Lonely Demise.

On Saturday evening Coroner McCortney received word from Maysville, this county, that a well known resident of that village, Carl Kohler, had been found dead in his bed, on Saturday afternoon at about 3:30 o'clock. The coroner went out yesterday morning and convened a coroner's jury composed of Messrs. Henry Schultz, August Meier and Chris Luethje, and proceeded to hold an inquest.

It was found that Carl Kohler was a man passed the middle of life, who resided all alone in a pleasant little home in the village of Maysville, and had done so for years. He was well known to everybody, and was apparently well liked by everybody, his only weakness being the amount of fire water he could consume each day, but he always paid for everything he got, was quiet and unobtrusive and attended to his own business. His cottage consisted of several rooms, all of which he always kept with scrupulous cleanness. The floors were always scrubbed, his bed neat, the windows provided with curtains, and in fact, everything about the place was the acme of neatness.

He kept a cow and used to take the milk to the creamery near there regularly every morning. On Saturday morning he did not come, but nothing was thought of it, until the man at the creamery noticed Kohler's cow incessantly bellowing in the afternoon, and that she had not been milked. He learned that Kohler had gone home at 11 o'clock the previous evening and had not been seen since. Calling a couple of neighbors they went to the house and succeeded in securing an entrance at the kitchen door. When they drew back the curtains of the bed, they saw Kohler lying there, cold in death. It was evident that he had been dead for some time, as rigor mortis had set in, the body being rigid.

The coroner's jury after hearing all the evidence, and the coroner making an examination, returned a verdict that Carl Kohler came to his death from natural causes, paralysis of the heart being the cause.

Kohler has no relatives in this country as far as known, and has only a brother in Germany, who will no doubt be his heir.