WILLIAM R. KESSLER

William R. Kessler died Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family residence, 816 York street. Death was due to a complication of diseases from which he had been suffering for the past six years. He was aged 70 years, four months and 23 days.
He was the son of the late John and Louisa Kessler.
Fifty-one years ago he was married to Miss Eliza Wagner, who survives with the following children: Mrs. Anna Wallet, Mrs. John Waltman, and Mrs. William Hershey, Hanover, and Mrs. Pius Wonder, Blooming Grove. The following brothers, Michael Kessler, Kansas; Jacob Kessler, Illinois; John R. Kessler, Penn township; Franklin Kessler, Marburg; and Oliver Kessler, Parkville, and two sisters, Mrs. Amanda Shaffer, York Road, and Mrs. Samuel Ehrhart, Abbottstown; 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren also survive.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. A brief service will be held at the Kessler home at 1:30 o'clock and further services will be conducted in Grace United Evangelical church. The Rev. J. C. Reeser will officiate. The services at the house will be private. Burial will be made in the family plot in Mt. Olivet cemetery.


The York Daily, Friday July 3, 1903

Hanover Man Killed by Falling Brick

William J. Kessler, of Hanover, a carpenter employed by Contractor William Klunk, met with an accident about 9 o'clock yesterday morning by being struck on the top of the head by a brick falling from the top of the building in course of erection by J. Q. Allewalt, on Bunker Hill, that place, which resulted in his death at 12:35 in the afternoon.
The bricklayers were at work on the building at the time finishing the second story, and Mr. Kessler met with the accident while walking around the building for the purpose of locating the position of the cornice blocks.