AGED TROY TOWNSHIP MAN DIED SUDDENLY

Ransom Teed once Lived at Shamburg.

Ransom Teed, one of the oldest residents of eastern Crawford county and formerly a worker in the oil fields around Shamburg was found dead at his home between South Troy and Black Ash last evening at 5 o'clock.

Mr. Teed lived with his son and daughter, Edward and Clara Teed.

During the day the son was husking corn at the barn of a neighbor and the aged man assisted him during the in the afternoon he left the house and Miss Teed thought that her father was again with her brother. It was not until the latter had returned home in the evening that it was found that the father had not been seen for some hours. The two went in search of their father and soon found him.

He had evidently been dead for some time. Paralysis is supposed to have caused the sudden call of the grim spectre.

Mr. Teed had been a resident of Troy township for the past twenty-five years. Before that time he was a resident of Shamburg where he worked on derricks and about the field in his trade as a carpenter. The aged gentleman was 87 years of age last February.

His wife died about twenty-three years ago and since that time he had lived with his children. Besides Edward and Miss Clara Teed, who live at home, Mr. Teed is survived by the following children: Alfred Teed
of Titusville, Mrs. Charles McKay of Cooperstown, Mrs. F.A. Perry and Mrs. Carpenter of Richmond township.


Oil City Derrick
Nov. 15, 1913
P 4; C. 3


Aged Man Dies Suddenly

Ransom Teed, one of the oldest residents of eastern Crawford county and formerly a worker in the oil fields around Shamburg, was found dead at his home between South Troy and Black Ash last evening at 5 o'clock. Mr. Teed lived with his son and daughter, Edward and Clara Teed. During the day the son was husking corn at the barn of a neighbor and the aged man assisted him during the forenoon. In the afternoon he left the house and Miss Teed thought that her father was again with her brother. It was not until the latter had returned home in the evening that it was found that the father had not been seen for some hours. The two went in search of their father and soon found him. He had evidently been dead for some time.
 

Submitted by Michael Teed