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DEATH OF D. W- HARTMAN-I --’Held a High Place la the Estimation of His Fellow M«m.The death of David W. Hartman, one of the members of the Gas City Pottery Company, occursii Saturday night about eleven o’clock at his home in Crawfords-ville . Mr. Hartman had been ill with the grip and on last Thursday be grew rapidly worse and his death was not unexpected. Funeral services occurred Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock and were under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Hartman was ju9tfifty-nine years of age at the time of his death. He was born at Crawfords ville and had his residence there during the greater part of his life. He served during the war in the 10th Indiana Infantry, He leaves a widow and three children.Mr. Hartman is well known in Gas City where he has been much of the time since the location of the Pottery works at this place and his business and social relations here have been such as to gain for him the general esteem of those who knew him. The Crawfords-vilie Journal says of him:lt;‘Perhaps no citizen of Crawfordsville stood higher in the estimation of bis townsmen than Mr Ilartman. Modest, unassuming, and of a kindly heart he attracted all classes to himself aud in dying leaves a memory characterized by something more than a reputation for honesty and fair dealing.”Through some misunderstanding,news of Mr. Hartman’s death did not reach Gas City until Tuesday forenoon.The Pottery works were then closed until Wednesday.
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Gas City Weekly Journal
Gas City, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 04, 1898
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