Harry Thomas Zeigler (1891 - 1964)

Born 23 Mar 1891 in Mahoning Township, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 11 Mar 1964 at age 72 in San Francisco, California, United States

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Newspaper article about the death of Harry Zeigler's friend: Lehighton Boy Meets With Horrible Death Attempting to board a west bound freight train at the Lehigh Valley station at Slatington, to ride to his home in this placee, early yesterday morning, Jas.Lapp, foreman in the Whitehead silk mill Slatington, was struck by an east bound train which he wanted to board and crushed to death. Deceased was aged seventeen years and four months and was a son of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lapp, of north 2ndstreet. The funeral will take place on Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. Services will be held in the Episcopal church and Rev.Breese will officiate at the last sad rites. The unfortunate young man was accompanied by Harry Zeigler, also of town, and having missed the late train home, had expected to get a tide on a freight when the accident occurred. A Slatington correspondent says of the accident – “Shortly before five o'clock two trains came along, one west bound, which they decided to take, and the other was east bound. Lapp stood too close to the east bound track and the locomotive struck him, and hurled him against the approaching west bound train, under the wheels of which he was crushed to death. The remains of the dead man, who had been horribly mangled, were picked up and carried unto the railroad station and Alderman W. F.Bower, of Allentown, who is acting coroner during the illness of Coroner James Goheen, was communicated with. When he learned the condition under which the young man had met his tragic end he directed that the remains be turned over to an undertaker and issued a certificate of accidental death. Undertaker Moll and J. Dan Wolford went to Slatington yesterday afternoon and brought the corpse to this place where it was prepared for burial.

Harry was born in 1891. He is the son of Thomas Zeigler and Clara Shoemaker. ^[1]

Harry at a party: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tonybennyhoff/lp1906-1907.pdf (page 102)

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Military: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6VQ-QFQ

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1. ↑ Entered by Carroll Woods, Jul 3, 2012