Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-07-14
Deaths Grim Work.
49, sTEwART woLF.


j ~ respected residents of the city, which
occurred Monday at :. 80 O. clock p. m. was
i a severe shock to his family and MS num-
4 erous friends. He was in the 7Ist year
of his age. Death was caused by neu-
ralgia OF the heart.
h Mr.. Wolfe had finished eating supper
and had gone into the garden shortly after
six clock 10 take his usual after supper
\ smoke. Alter finishing his smoke he
4 arose togo into the house and as he did
so be suddenly became weak and his
elmbs gave away. As soon as the attack
came upon him he called for assistance
and his grandson, Philip Faulkner, who
was in the house, ran TO his aid and as
n sisted him into the house. Physicians
were hastily summoned and all that was
possible was done to save him,
but all to nc avail. At 7.3o o'clock
81 he breathed his last He was conscious
2 UP until the time of his death.
81 The doctor pronounced death due TO
neuralgia Of the heart. 1t was the first at
ri tack of the kind he ever had. lie had been
complaining of i'll health for the past sew
\ slial months. but had not shown the
Il Brightest signs of being seriously Ill.
q The deceased was the son OF John Won
q and was born in Berkeley county. he was
a carpenter by trade. When young
n man he went to Missouri, where ne was
Z at the outbreak of the Civil War. When
4 the war broke out he joined Company F.,
a ISL Missouri Infantry, Confederate army
II in which he served throughout the war.
NJ Mr.. Wolf leaves a wife, who was form
81 erlv Miss Susan Meade Hedges, having
n been left widow by Philip Van Metre.
81 He is survived by son, Charles, who is
now in Pittsburg: two brothers and one
sister: Rev James Wolf, Charles Town:
ii Mrs. Geo. w. DeGrange, of this city, and
u Mr.. Christian Wolf, of Missouri
The funeral took place from the house
Ri Wednesday afternoon at $50 O'Clock, Rev.
N S. G.. Ferguson officiating.
! SAMUEL BRANrNER.
MIR. Samuel Brantner another aged and
highly respected CITIZEN dropped dead
while sitting at the supper table at has
home, 3o7 Eulalia street, Mondav evening
at o'clock, aged 90 years.
Mr.. Brantner spent yesterday afternoon
at the headquarter of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers Hereturned home
IN the evening about 6. 80 o'clock and short
w afterward sat down with his family to
eat his supper. Before he began eating
he was noticed to gasp and lean over on
the table and in few minutes was dead
His death was entirely unexpected and
was great blow to his family, as well as
to a wide circle of friends. Death was
caused by paralysis of the heart,
MIR. Brantner was born in Washing
ton county, Md, in the year 1884. Int
year 1884 he came to Martlnsburg and
secured employment as fireman on the b.
& o. Railroad. after firing fourteen
months he was promoted to the position
engineer which position he held until
incapacitated for further work by acct
dent, which happened to him about fifteen
wears ago at South Branch bridge, where
his head was struck and his skull frac-
tured either by warning post or by the
bridge, while leaning out OF his lab win
dow.
During the last few year of his life he
has been keeping store at his home on
Eulalie street.
The deceased was thrice married. Ills
third wife, who was formerly Miss Eliz-
abeth Dawson, of Great Cacapon, sur
wives him. He leaves two children, Mr..
mo. NJ. Brantner, of-this city, by his first
wife, and Mrs. Bette Conley, of Cumber-
land, by his second wife.
Mr.. Brautner was chaplain in the local
lodge of the b. of L. + and has been a
member of the Ist M. +. Church for the
past thirty years.
Funeral services was held in the Ist
M. Z. Church Wednesday afternoon at
$50 o'clock. lnterment in Green Hill
cemetery.