The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-03
Particulars of Vim. A. namillss Death

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Particulars of Vim. A. HamiIIis Death.
The following account of the sad acct
dent by which VIM. a. Hamill, Jr., son.
in-law of James G. Pancoast, methis death,
is taken from the Denver, Colorado, Repub-
lean, issue of Dec. Goth.
News was received In Denver yesterday OF
the reported accidental killing of William a.
Hamill, son of General w. a. Hamill, OF
Georgetown, which ccurred at a ranch near
Hayden, Routt county, last Friday evening
about6 O'Clock.
The particulars of the sad event as reported
were: Amountain lion had been seen in the
neighborhood, and Mr.. Hamill and a neighbor,
armed with Winchester rifles, had been scour-
ing the hills in search OF it, but falling to find
the animal, they hid their arms in the brush
and rode to a ncighboring ranch, wher they
remained some time. When they returned to
the place where their guns were concealed,
Mr.. HainIll reached down from his horse, and
grasping his rifle by the barrel, was drawing
it up toward him, when it was discharged,
sending a 45-calibre bullet crashing through
his brain. 1t is supposed that the hammer
caught III some brush. causing it to fly back.
The ball entered the right temple and came
out Just above the left ear. He fell from his
horse and was dead when his com panion
reached him.
The body was taken to the home of the de.
ceased and then carried 10 the nearest rail
road station, a distance of over leo miles, where
it was shipped to his city. The funeral will
occur at : o'clock this afternoon from the
Hamill farm. The remains viii be buried in
Riverside cemetery.
The trip from the ranch to Russell was made
through a binding snow storm, and the We
hicle containing the body was several times
almost buried in the drifts. and Mrs. Hamill
and the friends who accompanied her on her
sad mission suffered greatly from the cold.
When the railroad was reached the news was
telegraphed to General Hamill at Georgetown.
Accompanied by his family, he came down to
Denver yesterday and met Mrs. Hamill with
the body efher husband.
William Arthur HamiII, Jr, was born on the
9Th day OF November, A. D., 1861, at Philadei-
phia, Pennsylvania. After attending primary
school at Georgetown for some years, in 1873,
at the age of H. he entered Jarvis Hall, then
located near Golden, Jefferson county. From
there, in 1871, he entered on q course of studies
at Ury House, near Philadelphia, at that time
conducted by Mrs. james Crawford, and re-
manned there four years. He then entered
s~warthmere College. situate at Media, Chester
county, Pennsylvania, and after remaining
there enc year, he engaged in stock raising at
junction ranch, Grand county In the spring
of 1888 he visited Europe, remaining there
about one year. Returning to Colorado in the
fall of 1884, he removed to the Diamond ranch,
on the Yainpa river, in Routt county, engag-
ing in the raising of cattle and horses. On
July 5, 1856, he was married to Hannah Lord
Pancoast, daughter of James Childs and
Charlotte L. Pancoast, of Woodstown, New
Jersey. Surviving him he leaves his wife and
two children, William Arthur and Henry
Cloyd HaTnill.
y special dispatch from Georgetown. the
home of General Hamill and family, thus ex-
presses the reception of the news of the re-
ported accident at that place, where the de-
ceased was well known:
"The feeling of sadness over the sudden
death of young William A. Hamill is uni
versll. He lived ON his ranch in Routt coun-
ty, about 800 miles from Georgetown, and at
last ~ccounts he was well and highly gratifed
over a successful ranching season. Prepare
tons had been made by the family in George
town for the holiday festivities. when the
cruel news came that the eldest son had just
died. General Hamill and family took a
special train to Denver last evening to meet
the Young wife accompanying the body