Seized with a heart attack while in the yard of his home on East Third street, Charles B. Mattoon, a well known Frederick resident and Civil War veteran, dropped dead yesterday evening. Mr. Mattoon had been in poor health for the past year and for a long time had been a sufferer of asthma. He was critically ill early in the spring but recovered to the extent that he was able to be about the house and garden. Yesterday he arose early and was in the best of spirits. Despite the heat, he took a walk about 6 o'clock to his garden and it was while there that the fatal heart attack came. Death resulted instantly. Mr. Mattoon was 76 years of age.
With the death of Mr. Mattoon, there survives but one of that famous regiment, known as the
Seized with a heart attack while in the yard of his home on East Third street, Charles B. Mattoon, a well known Frederick resident and Civil War veteran, dropped dead yesterday evening. Mr. Mattoon had been in poor health for the past year and for a long time had been a sufferer of asthma. He was critically ill early in the spring but recovered to the extent that he was able to be about the house and garden. Yesterday he arose early and was in the best of spirits. Despite the heat, he took a walk about 6 o'clock to his garden and it was while there that the fatal heart attack came. Death resulted instantly. Mr. Mattoon was 76 years of age.
With the death of Mr. Mattoon, there survives but one of that famous regiment, known as the
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