Haberly, Charles F. 1870 - 1914

HABERLY, SELLMAN, FRANK, WILSON

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/1/2017 at 14:53:24

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer September 25, 1914, FP, C3
Transcribed from: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87058075/1914-09-25/ed-1/seq-1/

Charles Haberly Killed in Accident

Charles F. Haberly, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Haberly, but for several years a resident of Decorah, was fatally injured last Thursday evening while at work on his farm south of Crsaco, and passed away Sunday night at 11 o'clock at Mercy hospital, where he was taken for surgical treatment, without having regained consciousness.
He was assisting fill a silo and started toward the ensilage cutter to start feeding the machine when its cover, a sheet iron affair of considerable weight, blew off and struck Mr. Haberly with so much force that his skull was fractured, both upper and lower jaw bones broken in several pieces on the right side of his face and also breaking the collar bone.
The deceased was born in Howard County, on the farm where he met with the fatal accident, on Oct. 16, 1871. He was united in marriage to Clara Sellman, in Hesper, fourteen years ago in October, who with five children, four girls and one boy, besides two sisters. Mrs. Will Frank and Mrs. Frank Wilson of Howard county, are left to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father. . . .
Funeral services were held in Immanuel’s Lutheran church, Wednesday, conducted by Rev. Pless, and the remains taken on the afternoon train to Decorah where services were held I the Norwegian Synod church by Rev. Torrison, with interment in Phelps cemetery.

Transcriber's Note: His gravestone shows his year of birth a 1870.

Phelps Cemetery
 

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