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Clermont Man Dead, Result Of Shot Gun Wounds Bradfrod, Jly 13 – The victim of a (unreadable) shot-gun which he had taken home with him from Hazelhurst Friday evening, Carl Swanson, aged 51, was discovered dead in the dining room of his home near Clermont last (unreadable), by three Bradford friends who had gone to visit him.
Swanson who lived alone on the Swanson homestead on the Kasson-Clermont road evidently had been [fum]bling with the gun when it discharged sending the load into his body near the heart some of the shot de[par]ting from his ribs into the ceiling [and] had been dead 18 to 24 hours when discovered.
Swanson, the son of the late S.J. and Josephine Swanson was a bachelor. He had gone to Hazelhurst Friday for supplies for the week-end and was accompanied home by a brother (unreadable) to who lives at Hazelhurst. It is believed he shot himself accidentally [not] long after he had arrived home.
Ernest Nelson, R.B. Swanson and (unreadable) Nelson all of Bradford who discovered the body immediately notified [cou]nty Detective J.J. Allison who [we]nt to the scene. Mr. Allison ordered [the] body removed to the Lantz funeral [home] in Mt. Jewett.
Swanson is survived by two brothers, (unreadable) and Elmer of Smethport R.F.D. and three sisters.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at his late home; interment was in Kasson Cemetery.
Searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave
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Clermont Man Dead, Result Of Shot Gun Wounds Bradfrod, Jly 13 – The victim of a (unreadable) shot-gun which he had taken home with him from Hazelhurst Friday evening, Carl Swanson, aged 51, was discovered dead in the dining room of his home near Clermont last (unreadable), by three Bradford friends who had gone to visit him.
Swanson who lived alone on the Swanson homestead on the Kasson-Clermont road evidently had been [fum]bling with the gun when it discharged sending the load into his body near the heart some of the shot de[par]ting from his ribs into the ceiling [and] had been dead 18 to 24 hours when discovered.
Swanson, the son of the late S.J. and Josephine Swanson was a bachelor. He had gone to Hazelhurst Friday for supplies for the week-end and was accompanied home by a brother (unreadable) to who lives at Hazelhurst. It is believed he shot himself accidentally [not] long after he had arrived home.
Ernest Nelson, R.B. Swanson and (unreadable) Nelson all of Bradford who discovered the body immediately notified [cou]nty Detective J.J. Allison who [we]nt to the scene. Mr. Allison ordered [the] body removed to the Lantz funeral [home] in Mt. Jewett.
Swanson is survived by two brothers, (unreadable) and Elmer of Smethport R.F.D. and three sisters.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at his late home; interment was in Kasson Cemetery.
Searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave
Family Members
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Oscar Wilhelm Swanson
1876–1919
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Johan Severus "John" Swanson
1877 – unknown
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Ellen Belina Swanson Anderson Johnson LeBlanc
1882–1951
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Sven Albert Swanson
1884–1901
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Ida Josephine Swanson Anderson
1886–1969
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Vernon Everett Swanson
1888–1961
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Pvt Victor Leander Swanson
1890–1921
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Anna Miranda Swanson Nelson
1892–1955
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Elmer Wilhelm Swanson
1895–1973
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