McKean County Pennsylvania News Items From the Past
The Lycoming Gazette, Williamsport, PA
October 23, 1821
Married on Thursday, the 11th inst., at Cerestown, McKean county, by Renselear Wright, Mr. Henry Smith, of that place to Miss Clarissa George, daughter of Col. Levi George of New Hampshire.
Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
October 31, 1821
Bellefonte, Oct. 17
Distressing Accident
On the 8th instant, Judge Forster, of McKean county, was shot accidently by his son. The circumstances relating to this melancholy event are as follows: The son had left home for the purpose of hunting wolves; after he had been gone for some time, the father went out for the same purpose. As is common among hunters, one of them set up an howling, after the manner of a wolf, and was answered by the other. They continued howling in this manner until they approached each other within a very short distance. The father had hid himself behind a log, placing brush upon his back to disguise himself, so that when the wolf (as he supposed) came near enough to shoot, it would not be frightened away.
Having raised himself a little for that purpose, the son observed the motion, fired, taking the object fired at to be a wolf. The ball entered the right side of the neck and passed out at the left hip. The son, on finding what had happened, took off his coat and vest, placed them under his father's head and started home for the purpose of getting aid; but his senses fled before he reached his father's residence, he became deranged and was found in that situation; not knowing, or having power, at the time to relate the dreadful and heart rending tale. - Patriot.
The Indiana Democrat (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
July 13 1893
John A. Gansehorn of Hazleton drowned himself and Lynford Yost of Sellersville shot himself. Their marital relations were unhappy.