Andrew Dunahugh (1870-1891)

DUNAHUGH, ULUM

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/12/2016 at 19:28:26

From Nevada Representative October 14, 1891

A Sad Accident.

Word was received Friday morning by his parents that Andrew Dunahugh had been shot out in Nebraska and for his mother to come at once. She started forthwith, but the news came the next day that he was dead, and Sunday night his mother, Marshall Tupper and a Mr. Atkinson arrived with the body.

Andrew had gone out to Nebraska two weeks ago to visit Marshall Tupper, son of S. W. Tupper, and a special chum of his, at Anselmo, Nebraska. The boys were out hunting together and had crawled up to a pond with guns cocked, looking for ducks, but there were no ducks and the boys were standing up and Marshall had lowered one hammer of his gun when Andrew stepped around in front of him and the other barrel went off, Andrew receiving the charge in his side. They were at the time about half a mile from a house from which help was procured and to which he was taken and there he received the kindest attention until his death. He was shot late on Thursday afternoon and died Friday evening.

Andrew Dunahugh was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Dunahugh and would have been 21 years of age on the 25th of the present month. He was a thoroughly good boy, the comfort and hope of his parents, and their loss is one such as only he or she who has lost a promising and only son on the verge of manhood can fully appreciate; while the grief of the companion and dearest friend who held the fatal gun and to whom the misfortune is a terrible one, is great as it can be. He as well as the bereft parents is entitled to and receives profound sympathy. The funeral was impressively conducted at the Lutheran church yesterday forenoon by Rev. Coyle. The high school, the band and the W. R. C., to the last of which his mother belonged, attended in a body. The band played a last requiem to their departed comrade. The floral decorations were beautiful and fitly symbolized the esteem in which Andrew was held and the heartfelt sympathy extended to the deepest mourners.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Andrew Dunahugh was the son of Alexander Dunahugh and Elizabeth Ann Ulum.