Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-15
JAMES WITHROW
Dropped Dead Suddenly In Mari.
eta Saturday.

g. a well-known old soldier OF
this city, upon returning home
from Sistersville, w. Va, dropped
dead about II: Is o'clock Satur-
day in front of Shiers Brothers
blacksmith shop, on Second street,
and it is supposed heart disease
was the cause of death.
Mr.. Withrow had been making
a three-weeks' visit with his
daughter, Mrs. P. c. Ackerson,
of Sistersville, and Saturday NOR
ming he and another daughter,
Mrs. George Baum, of 629 Sixth
street, her husband and child,
who were also visiting at Sisters
vile, returned home by boat. At
the corner of Second and Greene
streets Mr.. and Mrs. Baum stop
ped to wait for a street car. They
asked Mr.. WithrOw to wait also,
but he was adverse to riding on
the cars and told them he pre-
ferred to walk. and so started
home in that manner, carrying his
telescope with him, as he would
let no one else take it. He had not
left them much more than two
minutes before he stumbled IN
front IF Shiers Brothers shop and
when picked up few seconds
later he was dead. In the fall he
received badly bruised eye and a
cut on the chin, both of which
bled freely. Two small boys first
discovered the man lying on the
walk and notified Andy Martin,
a helper at the Leidecker Tool
works, and their driver and a
blacksmith and these three men
went out and picked him up and
placed him in the shade under a
tree nearby, where a large crowd
soon gathered.
w. Z. Detlor and Shiers Broth
ers' both telephoned for physi-
clans. as it was not known just
then that he was dead, and DR.. o..
A. Lambert was the first to re-
spond. He made hasty eXamlna-
ton and pronounced the man
dead. stating that he thought
death was due from apolexy,
Coroner Athey was also commune
Gated with, but he was unable to
come at once. and it was decided
to take the remains to an under
taking establishment. Undertaken
Doudna was summoned and took
the body to his establishment,
where it was prepared for bur-
ial.
A Mr.. Chamberlain was the
ONLY person who saw Mr.. With
row fail. but he thought the latter
had stumbled and would arise at
once, but as he did not he started
to his assistance, but others were
nearer to the man by that time.
He had fallen face downward near
the edge-of the curb on the south
side of the street, and in doing
so received several bad gashes.
A peculiar coincidence in con-
nection with the sad affair is the
fact that several years ago Mr..
Withrom was the victim ola run
away accident which occurred not
more than forty feet from the
spot where he dropped dead:
Ever since that time his head had
been giving him more or less trou-
BILE, and for the last year he has
had but few days when he could
say he was feeling well.
Upon arriving home after
boarding the car Mr.. and Mrs.
George Baum were apprlsed OF
the sudden death of the latter s
father.
James Nelson Withrow was
born in this city June l, lS41, and
was therefore GO years old. He
spent most of his life in this city
and made his home with his
daughter. Mrs. George Baum, of
Sixth street, for the past several
years. He was a farmer by oc-
cupation and at one time lived
in Warren township, where he
raised a family of six children
three sons and three daughters :
Mrs. ?. c.. Ackerson of Sisters
vile Mrs. Geo. Baum of this city,