Forrest A. Stocker

1887 - 1898  (11 years)

• Name	Forrest A. Stocker
  Birth	4 Apr 1887
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Oct 1898
  Person ID	I899	Carl
  Last Modified	20 May 2012

  
  

  Father	William Sylvester Stocker,   b. 1 May 1842, Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas County, OH d. 24 Jul 1922, Tippecanoe Twp., Kosciusko County, IN (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Catherine Knepper,   b. 29 Jan 1847, Franklin County, PA d. 6 Jun 1923 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	19 Nov 1866
  Photos		William and Sarah (Knepper) Stocker
  Family ID	F384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The following is taken from a newspaper clipping from the Warsaw newspaper: "It is our painful duty to chronicle the death by accidental shooding of one of our citizens near here Saturday. Sam Stocker accidently shot his young brother Forrest, death resulting in a few minutes. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stocker, who live on the northeast farm of the township, had gone to Ligonier and the brothers took down the gun and went out to hunt rabbits and had killed two when another was scared up, which the elder boy was prepared to shoot, when it got away, and in putting down the trigger the gun was discharged, the contents entering the body of the younger brother in the region of the heart. He said: "Sam, you have shot me," and expired instantly. Sam is seventeen and the deceased eleven years of age. The bereaved ones are deserving of all sympathy, and especially the one who innocently did the deed." Forrest Stocker Northern Indianian Oct. 20, 1896 (Webster) DEATH: It is our painful duty to chronicle the death by accidental shooting of one of the citizens near here Saturday. Sam Stocker accidently shot his younger brother, Forrest, death resulting in a few minutes. Mr. and Mrs. William Stocker, who live on the NE far of the township, had gone to Ligonier and the brothers took the gun to hunt rabbits. They had secured two, when another was scared up, which the elder boy was prepared to shoot when it got away. In putting down the trigger, the gun was discharged entering the young brother in the heart. Sam is 17 years old, and the deceased was 11.