Found Dead

Last Monday forenoon Mr. Daniel Kenney notified Corner Pierce that a man, living on Morris McKenney’s place, about six miles from town near the Missouri river, had been found dead, by Dan Maher, who went over Monday morning to get him to come and help him kill some hogs.

Coroner Pierce immediately summoned a jury consisting of W. D. Gross, Charles McMenemy, Thomas Plummer, Thos. Ashley, John Thornton and Lewis Vaughen, and proceeded to the spot, when the following facts were elicited:

The deceased’s name was Frederick Mitzner, a Polander by birth, aged about 40 years and supposed to have been a tailor by occupation.

The man had lived alone there for some time and his neighbors knew very little about him. There was another man living with him last summer but he went away early in the fall. The body was found lying on the floor, face down, and the head partially under the bed. There was nothing in the room of any value, the entire bedding being a couple of old torn blankets. A part of a sack of flour and some salt was all the eatables that were to be found. A little coffee in the kernel, and unroasted, was found done u in an old satchel, as it laid away for safe-keeping. The man had a team not very valuable, wagon and harness, a few agricultural implements, some chickens and about 300 bushels of corn in the crib.

The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death from want of proper care and food. The remains were taken in charge by the Coroner and brought to this city and buried in the Potter’s field on Tuesday.

Note: Since the actual death date was not given, the news article date was used.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~