Obituary - John Connor
East :Liverpool Tribune
FACE DOWNWARD WELLSVILLE MAN IS FOUND DEAD
Body Discovered In Soft Clay at Patterson Pottery.
Demise Due to Heart Failure or Ruptured Blood Vessel.
The dead body of John Connor, a well known character about Wellsville, was found at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning (October 22, 1911) within the enclosure of Patterson Brothers' pottery, Twelfth street and Anderson avenue, Wellsville by Nick Grafton and Jack Skelly of that city.
There were no marks of violence, and because of the fact that Connor had been in bad health for some time past the opinion prevails that his death was due either to heart disease or a ruptured blood vessel.
The body lay face downward in the soft clay, the forehead resting on the left forearm and the hat of the deceased firmly grasped in his right hand.
The body was stiff and cold, indicating that life had been extinct for six or seven hours. Connors was last seen alive at 11 o'clock Saturday night, at which time he was seen walking in the direction of the pottery, where he and his friends had been in the habit of meeting nightly for several years past.
At the direction of Coroner Beane the body was taken in charge by McLean Bros., Wellsville undertakers, and removed to their morgue on Broadway, near Third street, and the inquest will probably be held today.
The deceased was 28 years of age and single. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Connor, Twelfth street and Center avenue, Wellsville: two sisters, Mrs. Patrick Stuzkey and Mrs. William Maloney, and three brothers, James, S. W. and Benjamin Connor, all of Wellsville.
The funeral arrangements have not been completed.
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