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Christian Harter

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Christian Harter

Birth
Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Death
10 Jan 1867 (aged 52)
Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec OP, lot 498, sp 4
Memorial ID
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Son of Joseph & Elizabeth (Brower) Harter; siblings - John, Susan, Eli, Delia, Elizabeth, Magdalena, Joseph, Jacob and Phoebe. Married Catherine Miller on 19 December 1842 in Wabash County, Indiana.

OBITUARY - Plain Dealer, Wabash (IN) - January 17, 1867
FATAL ACCIDENT. On Thursday of last week, Mr. Christian Harter, one of our oldest and best citizens was out on Falls Avenue with a large two horse sleigh assisting in moving some goods belonging to one of his neighbors, after having loaded his sleigh and in driving down the hill on the vacant lot north of the Avenue the horses became frightened and ran violently down the hill, throwing Mr. Harter from the load and directly between the sleigh and a large stump, one of the runners caught him against the stump crushing his hips badly from the effects of which he died in thirteen hours after.

Mr. H. was a man universally loved in our community, and no man enjoyed to a greater extent the esteem and confidence of his fellow men. He was a useful and prominent member of the 1st Presbyterian Church of this city, noted for his christian virtues and leaves behind him a name free from blemish or reproach. There are few who knew him that will not cherish his memory as that of a really good man who has passed to his Maker without leaving an enemy behind him.

His funeral was attended, on Saturday last by a large number of our citizens, and a very impressive discourse delivered at the 1st Presbyterian church by Rev. W. J. Essick.
Son of Joseph & Elizabeth (Brower) Harter; siblings - John, Susan, Eli, Delia, Elizabeth, Magdalena, Joseph, Jacob and Phoebe. Married Catherine Miller on 19 December 1842 in Wabash County, Indiana.

OBITUARY - Plain Dealer, Wabash (IN) - January 17, 1867
FATAL ACCIDENT. On Thursday of last week, Mr. Christian Harter, one of our oldest and best citizens was out on Falls Avenue with a large two horse sleigh assisting in moving some goods belonging to one of his neighbors, after having loaded his sleigh and in driving down the hill on the vacant lot north of the Avenue the horses became frightened and ran violently down the hill, throwing Mr. Harter from the load and directly between the sleigh and a large stump, one of the runners caught him against the stump crushing his hips badly from the effects of which he died in thirteen hours after.

Mr. H. was a man universally loved in our community, and no man enjoyed to a greater extent the esteem and confidence of his fellow men. He was a useful and prominent member of the 1st Presbyterian Church of this city, noted for his christian virtues and leaves behind him a name free from blemish or reproach. There are few who knew him that will not cherish his memory as that of a really good man who has passed to his Maker without leaving an enemy behind him.

His funeral was attended, on Saturday last by a large number of our citizens, and a very impressive discourse delivered at the 1st Presbyterian church by Rev. W. J. Essick.


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