1897. Frederick Henrich Zimmerman
PARENTS: claimed but not proved.
ANCESTRY:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/17792262/person/921695050/facts
See Funk Family Tree by KathleenFunk47 - no parents listedAncestry Sources
1820 United States Federal Census
1830 United States Federal Census
1840 United States Federal Census
War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815Military
1812 • PA Militia, Private, Cap. Walker
Extract Pension Application for Service in War of 1812, Frederick Zimmerman, D 12 Jun 1846, Pvt. PA Militia, Cap Walker, Married 4 Nov 1813, Harrisburg, PA, Wife/Wid Sarah Gemberling, Resided Dauphin Co. 1846-55-78, W died 20 Aug 1878, File # WO419-WC759Marriage
4 Nov 1813 • Zion Lutheran Church, 15 S 4th St. Harrisburg, PA
Harrisburg, PA
Sarah Ann Gemberling (1795–1878)Occupation
1813 • Harrisburg Pennsylvania
Painter - Recorded by Zion Lutheran Church at time of his burial
Parents
Paul Gemberling 1764–1832
Mary
2334. Heinrich Herman "Henry" Zimmerman
ANCESTRY:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/17792262/person/1245285657/facts
See Funk Family Tree by KathleenFunk47
Ancestry Sources
1840 United States Federal Census
1850 United States Federal Census
1860 United States Federal Census
1870 United States Federal Census
1880 United States Federal CensusParents
Frederick H. Zimmerman 1791–1846
Sarah Ann Gemberling 1795–1878Spouse & Children
Ann Mary 1814–
Sarah Ann Zimmerman 1837–
John Zimmerman 1844–
Edward Zimmerman 1846–
LaFayette Zimmerman 1849–
ANCESTRY:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/17792262/person/921688216/facts
Spouse & Children
Joseph Hogentogler 1815–1895
Mary E. Hogentogler 1840–
Sarah Ann Hogentogler 1842–1846
Josephine Hogentogler 1847–
Oswald Hogentogler 1849–1936
William Hogentogler 1851–1852
John F. Hogentogler –1859
1900. George Hellman Zimmernan
NOTE:
He is later listed as a Carpenter but his wife is listed as a Zimmerman at her death in 1855?
When did he change his surname?GRAVE: no grave image but obit and picture of him and a picture of family.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65853846
George Hellman Carpenter
Birth: Sep. 3, 1824
Colebrook
Lebanon County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Feb. 14, 1901
Warwick
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Obituary was in the Lititz, PA Record Express, published 17 Feb 2011 (summary article) - "Out of the Past" - 110 Years Ago - Friday Morning's Record - February 15, 1901.
"Civil War Vet Dies - Last night at 7 o'clock George Carpenter, a well known citizen, of Warwick and a veteran of the Civil War, died after a short illness from pneumonia. He had been in ill health for some years and was 76 years old. He was a member of the Moravian [sic] Church."
NOTE: Obit Index at the Lititz (PA) Public Library lists name George H. Carpenter. DOB is from rootsweb.com family trees.
The following information is from contributor Jean Doherty (member #47349305):
The original church record book says that he was a member of the Reformed Church.
Note that his mother is buried in a Reformed Cemetery - so this makes perfect sense. He came from a town that was not Moravian, and when he was born, Lititz was still a closed community - only Moravians lived there at that time. But the Moravians always allowed folks other than Moravians to be buried in their cemetery, and still do today.
Family links:
Parents:
Georg Carpenter (1794 - 1860)
Anna Hellman Carpenter (1789 - 1840)
Spouses:
Rebecca Goshert Zimmerman (1828 - 1855)
Anna Souder Carpenter (1830 - 1909)
Children:
John G Carpenter (1847 - 1925)*
Sarah Carpenter Hackman (1848 - 1934)*
Samuel S. Carpenter (1851 - 1931)*
Archibald Goshert Carpenter (1852 - 1944)*
Mary Goshert Carpenter Carpenter (1855 - 1920)*
Catharine S. Carpenter Ressler (1856 - 1944)*
Harry Carpenter (1862 - 1954)*
Ella Carpenter Zook (1864 - 1955)*
Elizabeth Carpenter Foltz (1867 - 1952)*
Leah Carpenter Summy (1869 - 1956)*
Franie Carpenter Daugherty (1874 - 1896)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: Dana Dancy
Record added: Feb 19, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 65853846
NOTE:
She is buried as a Zimmerman.GRAVE: image plus picture of her and her husband and her son.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=87967877
Rebecca Goshert Zimmerman
Birth: Apr. 4, 1828
Death: Apr. 18, 1855
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Family links:
Spouse:
George Hellman Carpenter (1824 - 1901)*
Children:
Archibald Goshert Carpenter (1852 - 1944)*
Mary Goshert Carpenter Carpenter (1855 - 1920)*
*Calculated relationship
Inscription:
d. of John and Elizabeth Goshert
w. of Georg Zimmerman
Burial:
Zion German Reformed Church Cemetery
Brickerville
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: Tom Donahue
Record added: Apr 02, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 87967877
GRAVE: image, obit and family picture
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82999919
Anna "Nancy" Souder Carpenter
Birth: Apr. 21, 1830
Warwick
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Dec. 9, 1909
Warwick
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Family links:
Parents:
Rudy Souder (1798 - 1858)
Rosanna Geib Souder (1802 - 1892)
Spouse:
George Hellman Carpenter (1824 - 1901)*
Children:
Samuel S. Carpenter (1851 - 1931)*
Catharine S. Carpenter Ressler (1856 - 1944)*
Harry Carpenter (1862 - 1954)*
Ella Carpenter Zook (1864 - 1955)*
Elizabeth Carpenter Foltz (1867 - 1952)*
Leah Carpenter Summy (1869 - 1956)*
Franie Carpenter Daugherty (1874 - 1896)*
Siblings:
Daniel C Souders (1827 - 1901)*
Anna Souder Carpenter (1830 - 1909)
Mary Souders Helter (1836 - 1932)*
*Calculated relationship
Note: Hometown: Warwick; next of kin:
Burial:
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: ProgBase
Record added: Jan 05, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 82999919
2343. Harrison S. "Harry" Carpenter
GRAVE: image
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=171226212
Harry Carpenter
Birth: Jul. 26, 1862
Death: Feb. 23, 1954
Family links:
Parents:
George Hellman Carpenter (1824 - 1901)
Anna Souder Carpenter (1830 - 1909)
Siblings:
John G Carpenter (1847 - 1925)**
Sarah Carpenter Hackman (1848 - 1934)**
Samuel S. Carpenter (1851 - 1931)*
Archibald Goshert Carpenter (1852 - 1944)**
Mary Goshert Carpenter Carpenter (1855 - 1920)**
Catharine S. Carpenter Ressler (1856 - 1944)*
Harry Carpenter (1862 - 1954)
Ella Carpenter Zook (1864 - 1955)*
Elizabeth Carpenter Foltz (1867 - 1952)*
Leah Carpenter Summy (1869 - 1956)*
Franie Carpenter Daugherty (1874 - 1896)*
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial:
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: Neil White
Record added: Oct 13, 2016
Find A Grave Memorial# 171226212
GRAVE: image
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=154429343
Leah Carpenter Summy
Birth: Mar. 27, 1869
Lititz
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Nov. 1, 1956
Elizabethtown
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Family links:
Parents:
George Hellman Carpenter (1824 - 1901)
Anna Souder Carpenter (1830 - 1909)
Spouse:
Harry Balmer Summy (1867 - 1902)
Siblings:
John G Carpenter (1847 - 1925)**
Sarah Carpenter Hackman (1848 - 1934)**
Samuel S. Carpenter (1851 - 1931)*
Archibald Goshert Carpenter (1852 - 1944)**
Mary Goshert Carpenter Carpenter (1855 - 1920)**
Catharine S. Carpenter Ressler (1856 - 1944)*
Harry Carpenter (1862 - 1954)*
Ella Carpenter Zook (1864 - 1955)*
Elizabeth Carpenter Foltz (1867 - 1952)*
Leah Carpenter Summy (1869 - 1956)
Franie Carpenter Daugherty (1874 - 1896)*
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial:
Manheim Fairview Cemetery
Manheim
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: Bruce Speck
Record added: Oct 30, 2015
Find A Grave Memorial# 154429343
GRAVE: image
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=154429288
Harry Balmer Summy
Birth: 1867
Death: 1902
Family links:
Parents:
Simeon Guilford Summy (1843 - 1912)
Mary A. Balmer Summy (1844 - 1923)
Spouse:
Leah Carpenter Summy (1869 - 1956)*
Siblings:
Harry Balmer Summy (1867 - 1902)
Elmer B. Summy (1874 - 1877)*
Homer B. Summy (1876 - 1913)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Manheim Fairview Cemetery
Manheim
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: Bruce Speck
Record added: Oct 30, 2015
Find A Grave Memorial# 154429288
2347. Frances "Franie" Carpenter
GRAVE: image
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Franie Carpenter Daugherty
Birth: Jul. 27, 1874
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Apr. 17, 1896
Warwick
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
The spelling in the memorial corresponds to the gravestone, Daugherty. The newspaper article gives the surname as "Dougherty."
Lititz Record (Lititz, Pa.), Friday, April 24, 1896, p. 1, col. 3:
"Terrible Tragedy
A Pistol Ends the Lives of a Young Couple.
Joseph Dougherty and His Wife Found Lying Side by Side in Their Bedroom at Warwick in an Unconscious Condition with Bullets In Their Heads, Fired by One or the Other of the Victims, Which the Coroner's Jury Could Not Say
All Lititz and the adjoining village of Warwick were thrown into feverish state of excitement on last Friday evening, April 17,when the terrible news was spread like wildfire that Joseph Dougherty had shot his wife and himself at their boarding place in the village of Warwick, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Carpenter, the parents of Mrs. Dougherty.
People rushed to the scene of the awful tragedy in large numbers and for hours afterward the neighborhood was surrounded with men, women and children anxious to find out all the particulars of a deed the like of which had never before been committed in this section of the country.
WHO THE VICTIMS WERE
The principal actor in the dual crime was Joseph Dougherty, aged 25 years, an employee of the cigar factory of Bricker & Snavely at this place, where his duty was to label and stamp cigar boxes and see to the shipment of goods. His victim was his wife, Frannie Dougherty, 22 years old. She was a cigarmaker and was employed in the same establishment as her husband, who came to Lititz from Philadelphia about December 1894. The young couple were married on Thanksgiving last at the Moravian parsonage by Rev. C. L. Moench and had since made their home with the parents of the young wife.
STARTED FOR PHILADELPHIA BUT RETURNED
On Friday morning of the day the deed was committed Dougherty and his wife left for Lancaster. They took the trolley car which leaves here at 10 o'clock. They returned home about 2 o'clock. They intended going to Philadelphia to visit Dougherty's mother, but abandoned the trip because Dougherty began drinking while in Lancaster. Upon their arrival in Lititz they took the omnibus, which meets the street cars, and were driven directly to their home. Upon arriving there both went directly to their room which is on the second floor front. The members of the family noticed that Dougherty had been drinking, and was slightly under the influence of liquor when he came home. He was sullen and apparently low-spirited. After they had been in their room for a short time Dougherty came down stairs and walked over to Lititz. While there he went to Bomberger's hardware store where he purchased some cartridges for the 32-caliber revolver, which was used to commit the double crime. Two weeks ago he had the pistol and was oiling it. To S. K. Snavely, one of his employees, he said he would shoot anyone who spoke to his wife.
When Dougherty left his home after the return of himself and wife from their trip, he was in a half-drunken condition, and his wife, who had frequently heard of his threats, feared that he might do something wrong. She went over to Lititz after him and visited several hotels, the cigar factory and other places, but was unable to find him. She then returned home, and on the way she told a neighbor that her husband had been drinking after having stopped for so long and she feared he might do something rash. When Mrs. Dougherty came home she found her husband there. He was in their room and she went up to him. He was lying on the lounge for a time and he continued to be very sullen and ugly. At a quarter past five o'clock Mrs. Carpenter called upstairs that supper was ready, and asked her to come down. The young woman replied that she did not want anything to eat, and that neither she nor her husband would be to the table.
THE SHOOTING WAS HEARD
Harry Gable and John Shirk were working near the house where the tragedy was enacted. They were about to quit work at 5:30 when they heard a pistol shot, followed about half a minute later by another report. Gable went to the kitchen where Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter were taking supper and asked them if they had heard the shooting. They both said they did, but were afraid to go up stairs to see. Gable then crawled on the back porch roof and finding the blind shutters closed at the room occupied by the couple, peeped in and saw both lying on the floor. Thereupon he tore open the shutters and was startled by a horrible sight. He went down and called in Aaron Kline, Levi Brubaker, John Shirk, and with Mr. Carpenter accompanying them they went up the stairway. Lying alongside the lounge on his abdomen was Dougherty with his feet resting against the footboard of the bed, his head in a pool of blood and the brain oozing out. The ceiling was also splashed with blood. Near by his wife, lying at right angles with her husband's head, her feet almost touching the bureau, and a revolver by her side close to her knees. The woman did not bleed much and at first it was thought her injuries were not so severe.
BULLETS IN THEIR BRAINS
Drs. J. C. Brobst and J. L. Hertz were quickly summoned, and an examination showed that Dougherty and his wife were suffering from frightful bullet wounds in the head. The ball which carried death to Mrs. Dougherty had ploughed its way through the parietal bone above the right eye and was deeply lodged in her brain; it caused a circular hole, large enough to insert a finger, but although the doctor probed they failed to locate it. The wound in Dougherty's skull was back of the right temple, and the hole which made it was somewhat larger than that in the woman's head. The would was obliquely downward, while the bullet had entered the woman's brain in a direct course. Both injuries were seen at once to be fatal, and the attentions of the physicians were devoted to have death come as painlessly as possible. The dying woman made no sound during the three hours or more which preceded dissolution, which came about a quarter before nine o'clock; but Dougherty was more restless, and the low moans to which he almost certainly gave utterance swelled to agonizing groans which seemed to indicate that he was passing through severe physical spasms. He died at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINIONS AS TO THE SHOOTING
From the somewhat peculiar positions in which the bodies were found, Dr. Brobst and others differed from popular opinion that Dougherty did the shooting, and especially so by the way the bullet penetrated his head, for if he shot himself he must have held his hand containing the revolver above his head, and for that reason the coroner's jury would not say who did the shooting.
DOUGHERTY WAS JEALOUS
Dougherty was of a very jealous disposition. He had been subject to periodical sprees, but on the day that he was united in marriage to Miss Carpenter he took a solemn vow while on his bended knee, that he would never again take a drink. He kept his promise faithfully until the Lancaster trip on Friday, when he began drinking. The couple seemed to get along very nicely, and apparently they were very loving up to within a short time. Of late the man became very jealous of his wife, who friends say that he had no cause whatever. She seemed to be greatly pleased that he never drank any liquor, and frequently spoke of it. Of late Dougherty had been acting queerly, and told his wife that he was jealous of her. This led to little quarrels. Dougherty became very sullen and ugly and acted strangely about the house.
LEFT A LETTER BEHIND
A letter that was left behind by the dead woman throws some light upon the mystery and it would indicate that she either fired the shots or had agreed to have her husband kill her. The letter shows that she had made preparations to die with her husband. The fact that the man purchased the cartridges seems to show that he fired the shots and had premeditated the murder. The letter was in the handwriting of Mrs. Dougherty and it was found on the bureau. It looked as though it had been written but a short time before and that it had been penned very hastily. The letter was as follows:
'DEAR PARENTS--If we die bury us where you please. Put us in one grave, one coffin, because never was there a couple who loved each other more dearly than we did. We have two hundred dollars in the Lititz National Bank, which we have earned, every cent of it, since we are married, for a home. But he is so insanely jealous of me that I cannot bear it any longer. Through his jealousness he broke a promise this morning -- the promise that has broken my heart to pieces. When we were married he promised me that he would never drink anything intoxicating as long as he lived. He knelt before me and God and to-day he has broken it. Oh, he wanted to hide it from me, but he could not. I cried aloud in the hotel and on the trolley car. I cannot get away from him.'
WAS THERE A MUTUAL AGREEMENT TO DIE TOGETHER.
The family of the girl are positive that Dougherty first shot his wife and then himself. From the tone of the letter it appears that the woman anticipated her approaching death, and it is just as likely as not that after they talked the matter over she agreed to have her life taken with his and in that way end their troubles. A few days previous to the shooting Dougherty, who was looked upon as a somewhat strange sort of man, in conversation with a friend said, :You fellows up here don;t know me too well, but some day I will show you what kind of a fellow I am.' It is believed that he then contemplated the terrible tragedy.
DOUGHERTY'S FAMILY
Dougherty has an aged mother, a brother and two sisters living in Philadelphia. His father died when he was an infant. His brother, Harry L., is traveling salesman for Bricker & Snavely's cigar factory and it was through him that Joseph came here.
THE DEAD WOMAN AND HER FAMILY.
George H. Carpenter, the father of the murdered woman, is a man well advanced in years. He draws a pension and has been twice married, the children of his second wife, who also survives, including besides the daughter, Franie, who met such a tragic death, being as follows: Leah, wife of Dr. Harry Summy, of Manheim; Harriet, wife of Anthony Weigand, a traveling dealer in patent medicines, of Lancaster; Lizzie, wife of Harry Foltz, carpet weaver, of Warwick; Amanda, wife of W. Scott Kauffman, who keeps a cigar store in Baltimore; Ellie, wife of L. L. Zook, hotel keeper, at Rothsville. The children of Mr. Carpenter's first marriage, and half brothers and sisters of Dougherty's victim are: John Carpenter, of Lititz; Archibald Carpenter, of Brownstown; Sarah, wife of Charles Hackman, of Pine Hill; and Mary, wife of Rudy Carpenter, of Akron, the latter no relative through bearing the same surname as his father-in-law.
THE CORONER'S INQUESTS.
As Dougherty died without regaining consciousness it was impossible to get a correct account to show exactly how the shooting occurred. That part of the case will likely forever remain a mystery. Saturday morning Deputy Coroner A. B. Reidenbach, impanneled a jury consisting of J. Frank Buch, Jacob S. Stark, D. K. Hacker, T. Frank Evans, Samuel Fisher and H. K. Hacker. They held an inquest on both bodies, and the same testimony was heard. The verdict in the woman's case was that the said 'Mrs. Dougherty came to her death prom a pistol shot fired from a 32-caliber revolver on April 17th.' The verdict in Dougherty's case was the same except that his death was placed as occurring on April 18th. The Jury did not say who fired the revolver, as they claim that it is uncertain, and they were not ready to state whether it was Dougherty or his wife.
PREPARING THE FUNERAL.
Undertaker Wm. H. Enck took charge of the bodies after death and arranged for the funeral, which took place on Tuesday. On Saturday noon two sisters of Mr. Dougherty and also a cousin arrived from Philadelphia, who at once proceeded to the house where the deed was committed to learn all the particulars. A burial lot was purchased on the Moravian cemetery and Rev. C. L. Moench, pastor of the Moravian church, was engaged to deliver the funeral sermon and officiate at the grave.
THE FUNERAL.
By the request of Dougherty's relatives the funeral was desired to be strictly private, and this was announced from the Moravian pulpit and in the Lancaster newspapers. Many people were anxious to view the remains of the two unfortunates, but knowing that there would be too big a crowd of people at the house of mourning, it was concluded not to show the bodies. However, notwithstanding that a private funeral was desired, many people flocked here from the surrounding country and lined the streets and pavements to get a glimpse of the double funeral, while at the cemetery there was also a large crowd of people.
Rev. Moench;s address was one which effected every person within hearing. He spoke more particularly to the young people, but alluded as little as possible to the tragedy which caused the young people's death. His remarks were well received and the relatives were more than pleased with the manner in which he spoke. A prayer and a hymn followed, when the unfortunate couple, who had previously been placed in handsome walnut burial caskets, were carried out of doors and placed in two hearses by the pall bearers, as follows: For Mrs. Dougherty -- Harry Smith, Amos Burkholder, Bitney Oehme, John Fleishman; for Mr. Dougherty -- Samuel Spickler, Albert Litch, Frank Downey, Zachariah Wike. The pall bearers were all employeed of Bricker & Snavely's cigar factory. Arriving at the cemetery, the relatives surrounded the grave in which were soon to be placed the bodies. That of Mr. Dougherty was brought forward first and gently lowered on the upper or north side, and then came Mrs. Dougherty, and she was lowered to her last resting place on the south side of her husband, Rev. Moench then read only part of the Moravian burial litany, and that done, the relatives and friends for the last time took a glance in the double grave, and then turned homeward with a look of sadness in their countenances plainer than words could tell.
Thus ended the scene of one of the saddest and most mysterious tragic affairs ever recorded in this section of country and one that will be talked and pondered over for years to come.
All of the sisters and other near relatives of Mrs. Dougherty were at the funeral. Of Mr. Dougherty's relatives there were present his mother, his three sisters, his brother H. L. Dougherty and wife, of Philadelphia; Mr. Mark Toohey, New York; Henry Dougherty, Charles H. Mills and wife, and J. B. O'Neill of Philadelphia."
Family links:
Parents:
George Hellman Carpenter (1824 - 1901)
Anna Souder Carpenter (1830 - 1909)
Spouse:
Joseph J. Daugherty (1872 - 1896)
Siblings:
John G Carpenter (1847 - 1925)**
Sarah Carpenter Hackman (1848 - 1934)**
Samuel S. Carpenter (1851 - 1931)*
Archibald Goshert Carpenter (1852 - 1944)**
Mary Goshert Carpenter Carpenter (1855 - 1920)**
Catharine S. Carpenter Ressler (1856 - 1944)*
Harry Carpenter (1862 - 1954)*
Ella Carpenter Zook (1864 - 1955)*
Elizabeth Carpenter Foltz (1867 - 1952)*
Leah Carpenter Summy (1869 - 1956)*
Franie Carpenter Daugherty (1874 - 1896)
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Inscription:
FANNIE CARPENTER
wife of
JOSEPH DAUGHERTY
Born July 27, 1874
Aged 21 yrs. 8 mos.
30 days
Burial:
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Maintained by: Denise Witwer Lahr
Originally Created by: ProgBase
Record added: Jan 05, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 82999947
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Joseph J. Daugherty
Birth: Mar. 5, 1872
Philadelphia
Philadelphia County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Apr. 18, 1896
Warwick
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
The spelling in the memorial corresponds to the gravestone, Daugherty. The newspaper article gives the surname as "Dougherty."
Lititz Record (Lititz, Pa.), Friday, April 24, 1896, p. 1, col. 3:
"Terrible Tragedy
A Pistol Ends the Lives of a Young Couple.
Joseph Dougherty and His Wife Found Lying Side by Side in Their Bedroom at Warwick in an Unconscious Condition with Bullets In Their Heads, Fired by One or the Other of the Victims, Which the Coroner's Jury Could Not Say
All Lititz and the adjoining village of Warwick were thrown into feverish state of excitement on last Friday evening, April 17,when the terrible news was spread like wildfire that Joseph Dougherty had shot his wife and himself at their boarding place in the village of Warwick, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Carpenter, the parents of Mrs. Dougherty.
People rushed to the scene of the awful tragedy in large numbers and for hours afterward the neighborhood was surrounded with men, women and children anxious to find out all the particulars of a deed the like of which had never before been committed in this section of the country.
WHO THE VICTIMS WERE
The principal actor in the dual crime was Joseph Dougherty, aged 25 years, an employee of the cigar factory of Bricker & Snavely at this place, where his duty was to label and stamp cigar boxes and see to the shipment of goods. His victim was his wife, Frannie Dougherty, 22 years old. She was a cigarmaker and was employed in the same establishment as her husband, who came to Lititz from Philadelphia about December 1894. The young couple were married on Thanksgiving last at the Moravian parsonage by Rev. C. L. Moench and had since made their home with the parents of the young wife.
STARTED FOR PHILADELPHIA BUT RETURNED
On Friday morning of the day the deed was committed Dougherty and his wife left for Lancaster. They took the trolley car which leaves here at 10 o'clock. They returned home about 2 o'clock. They intended going to Philadelphia to visit Dougherty's mother, but abandoned the trip because Dougherty began drinking while in Lancaster. Upon their arrival in Lititz they took the omnibus, which meets the street cars, and were driven directly to their home. Upon arriving there both went directly to their room which is on the second floor front. The members of the family noticed that Dougherty had been drinking, and was slightly under the influence of liquor when he came home. He was sullen and apparently low-spirited. After they had been in their room for a short time Dougherty came down stairs and walked over to Lititz. While there he went to Bomberger's hardware store where he purchased some cartridges for the 32-caliber revolver, which was used to commit the double crime. Two weeks ago he had the pistol and was oiling it. To S. K. Snavely, one of his employees, he said he would shoot anyone who spoke to his wife.
When Dougherty left his home after the return of himself and wife from their trip, he was in a half-drunken condition, and his wife, who had frequently heard of his threats, feared that he might do something wrong. She went over to Lititz after him and visited several hotels, the cigar factory and other places, but was unable to find him. She then returned home, and on the way she told a neighbor that her husband had been drinking after having stopped for so long and she feared he might do something rash. When Mrs. Dougherty came home she found her husband there. He was in their room and she went up to him. He was lying on the lounge for a time and he continued to be very sullen and ugly. At a quarter past five o'clock Mrs. Carpenter called upstairs that supper was ready, and asked her to come down. The young woman replied that she did not want anything to eat, and that neither she nor her husband would be to the table.
THE SHOOTING WAS HEARD
Harry Gable and John Shirk were working near the house where the tragedy was enacted. They were about to quit work at 5:30 when they heard a pistol shot, followed about half a minute later by another report. Gable went to the kitchen where Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter were taking supper and asked them if they had heard the shooting. They both said they did, but were afraid to go up stairs to see. Gable then crawled on the back porch roof and finding the blind shutters closed at the room occupied by the couple, peeped in and saw both lying on the floor. Thereupon he tore open the shutters and was startled by a horrible sight. He went down and called in Aaron Kline, Levi Brubaker, John Shirk, and with Mr. Carpenter accompanying them they went up the stairway. Lying alongside the lounge on his abdomen was Dougherty with his feet resting against the footboard of the bed, his head in a pool of blood and the brain oozing out. The ceiling was also splashed with blood. Near by his wife, lying at right angles with her husband's head, her feet almost touching the bureau, and a revolver by her side close to her knees. The woman did not bleed much and at first it was thought her injuries were not so severe.
BULLETS IN THEIR BRAINS
Drs. J. C. Brobst and J. L. Hertz were quickly summoned, and an examination showed that Dougherty and his wife were suffering from frightful bullet wounds in the head. The ball which carried death to Mrs. Dougherty had ploughed its way through the parietal bone above the right eye and was deeply lodged in her brain; it caused a circular hole, large enough to insert a finger, but although the doctor probed they failed to locate it. The wound in Dougherty's skull was back of the right temple, and the hole which made it was somewhat larger than that in the woman's head. The would was obliquely downward, while the bullet had entered the woman's brain in a direct course. Both injuries were seen at once to be fatal, and the attentions of the physicians were devoted to have death come as painlessly as possible. The dying woman made no sound during the three hours or more which preceded dissolution, which came about a quarter before nine o'clock; but Dougherty was more restless, and the low moans to which he almost certainly gave utterance swelled to agonizing groans which seemed to indicate that he was passing through severe physical spasms. He died at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINIONS AS TO THE SHOOTING
From the somewhat peculiar positions in which the bodies were found, Dr. Brobst and others differed from popular opinion that Dougherty did the shooting, and especially so by the way the bullet penetrated his head, for if he shot himself he must have held his hand containing the revolver above his head, and for that reason the coroner's jury would not say who did the shooting.
DOUGHERTY WAS JEALOUS
Dougherty was of a very jealous disposition. He had been subject to periodical sprees, but on the day that he was united in marriage to Miss Carpenter he took a solemn vow while on his bended knee, that he would never again take a drink. He kept his promise faithfully until the Lancaster trip on Friday, when he began drinking. The couple seemed to get along very nicely, and apparently they were very loving up to within a short time. Of late the man became very jealous of his wife, who friends say that he had no cause whatever. She seemed to be greatly pleased that he never drank any liquor, and frequently spoke of it. Of late Dougherty had been acting queerly, and told his wife that he was jealous of her. This led to little quarrels. Dougherty became very sullen and ugly and acted strangely about the house.
LEFT A LETTER BEHIND
A letter that was left behind by the dead woman throws some light upon the mystery and it would indicate that she either fired the shots or had agreed to have her husband kill her. The letter shows that she had made preparations to die with her husband. The fact that the man purchased the cartridges seems to show that he fired the shots and had premeditated the murder. The letter was in the handwriting of Mrs. Dougherty and it was found on the bureau. It looked as though it had been written but a short time before and that it had been penned very hastily. The letter was as follows:
'DEAR PARENTS--If we die bury us where you please. Put us in one grave, one coffin, because never was there a couple who loved each other more dearly than we did. We have two hundred dollars in the Lititz National Bank, which we have earned, every cent of it, since we are married, for a home. But he is so insanely jealous of me that I cannot bear it any longer. Through his jealousness he broke a promise this morning -- the promise that has broken my heart to pieces. When we were married he promised me that he would never drink anything intoxicating as long as he lived. He knelt before me and God and to-day he has broken it. Oh, he wanted to hide it from me, but he could not. I cried aloud in the hotel and on the trolley car. I cannot get away from him.'
WAS THERE A MUTUAL AGREEMENT TO DIE TOGETHER.
The family of the girl are positive that Dougherty first shot his wife and then himself. From the tone of the letter it appears that the woman anticipated her approaching death, and it is just as likely as not that after they talked the matter over she agreed to have her life taken with his and in that way end their troubles. A few days previous to the shooting Dougherty, who was looked upon as a somewhat strange sort of man, in conversation with a friend said, :You fellows up here don;t know me too well, but some day I will show you what kind of a fellow I am.' It is believed that he then contemplated the terrible tragedy.
DOUGHERTY'S FAMILY
Dougherty has an aged mother, a brother and two sisters living in Philadelphia. His father died when he was an infant. His brother, Harry L., is traveling salesman for Bricker & Snavely's cigar factory and it was through him that Joseph came here.
THE DEAD WOMAN AND HER FAMILY.
George H. Carpenter, the father of the murdered woman, is a man well advanced in years. He draws a pension and has been twice married, the children of his second wife, who also survives, including besides the daughter, Franie, who met such a tragic death, being as follows: Leah, wife of Dr. Harry Summy, of Manheim; Harriet, wife of Anthony Weigand, a traveling dealer in patent medicines, of Lancaster; Lizzie, wife of Harry Foltz, carpet weaver, of Warwick; Amanda, wife of W. Scott Kauffman, who keeps a cigar store in Baltimore; Ellie, wife of L. L. Zook, hotel keeper, at Rothsville. The children of Mr. Carpenter's first marriage, and half brothers and sisters of Dougherty's victim are: John Carpenter, of Lititz; Archibald Carpenter, of Brownstown; Sarah, wife of Charles Hackman, of Pine Hill; and Mary, wife of Rudy Carpenter, of Akron, the latter no relative through bearing the same surname as his father-in-law.
THE CORONER'S INQUESTS.
As Dougherty died without regaining consciousness it was impossible to get a correct account to show exactly how the shooting occurred. That part of the case will likely forever remain a mystery. Saturday morning Deputy Coroner A. B. Reidenbach, impanneled a jury consisting of J. Frank Buch, Jacob S. Stark, D. K. Hacker, T. Frank Evans, Samuel Fisher and H. K. Hacker. They held an inquest on both bodies, and the same testimony was heard. The verdict in the woman's case was that the said 'Mrs. Dougherty came to her death prom a pistol shot fired from a 32-caliber revolver on April 17th.' The verdict in Dougherty's case was the same except that his death was placed as occurring on April 18th. The Jury did not say who fired the revolver, as they claim that it is uncertain, and they were not ready to state whether it was Dougherty or his wife.
PREPARING THE FUNERAL.
Undertaker Wm. H. Enck took charge of the bodies after death and arranged for the funeral, which took place on Tuesday. On Saturday noon two sisters of Mr. Dougherty and also a cousin arrived from Philadelphia, who at once proceeded to the house where the deed was committed to learn all the particulars. A burial lot was purchased on the Moravian cemetery and Rev. C. L. Moench, pastor of the Moravian church, was engaged to deliver the funeral sermon and officiate at the grave.
THE FUNERAL.
By the request of Dougherty's relatives the funeral was desired to be strictly private, and this was announced from the Moravian pulpit and in the Lancaster newspapers. Many people were anxious to view the remains of the two unfortunates, but knowing that there would be too big a crowd of people at the house of mourning, it was concluded not to show the bodies. However, notwithstanding that a private funeral was desired, many people flocked here from the surrounding country and lined the streets and pavements to get a glimpse of the double funeral, while at the cemetery there was also a large crowd of people.
Rev. Moench;s address was one which effected every person within hearing. He spoke more particularly to the young people, but alluded as little as possible to the tragedy which caused the young people's death. His remarks were well received and the relatives were more than pleased with the manner in which he spoke. A prayer and a hymn followed, when the unfortunate couple, who had previously been placed in handsome walnut burial caskets, were carried out of doors and placed in two hearses by the pall bearers, as follows: For Mrs. Dougherty -- Harry Smith, Amos Burkholder, Bitney Oehme, John Fleishman; for Mr. Dougherty -- Samuel Spickler, Albert Litch, Frank Downey, Zachariah Wike. The pall bearers were all employeed of Bricker & Snavely's cigar factory. Arriving at the cemetery, the relatives surrounded the grave in which were soon to be placed the bodies. That of Mr. Dougherty was brought forward first and gently lowered on the upper or north side, and then came Mrs. Dougherty, and she was lowered to her last resting place on the south side of her husband, Rev. Moench then read only part of the Moravian burial litany, and that done, the relatives and friends for the last time took a glance in the double grave, and then turned homeward with a look of sadness in their countenances plainer than words could tell.
Thus ended the scene of one of the saddest and most mysterious tragic affairs ever recorded in this section of country and one that will be talked and pondered over for years to come.
All of the sisters and other near relatives of Mrs. Dougherty were at the funeral. Of Mr. Dougherty's relatives there were present his mother, his three sisters, his brother H. L. Dougherty and wife, of Philadelphia; Mr. Mark Toohey, New York; Henry Dougherty, Charles H. Mills and wife, and J. B. O'Neill of Philadelphia."
Family links:
Spouse:
Franie Carpenter Daugherty (1874 - 1896)*
*Calculated relationship
Inscription:
JOS J. DAUGHERTY
DIED APRIL 18, 1896
AGED 25 YEARS
Burial:
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Maintained by: Denise Witwer Lahr
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Record added: Jan 05, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 82999948
1934. Thomas McCoy "Mack" Vance
GRAVE: no grave image but two bio pictures with spouses.
Thomas McCoy “Mack” Vance
Birth: 25 Jun 1895 North Carolina, USA
Death: 23 Aug 1974 (aged 79) Newland, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Burial: Stamey Family CemeteryAvery County, North Carolina, USA
Memorial #: 44332726
Bio:
Thomas McCoy Vance
"Mack"
Family Members
Parents
Albert Vance 1875-1966
Martha Carpenter Vance 1878-1961
Spouses
Ruth Pyatte Vance 1905-1927
Candace Stamey Vance 1909-1990
Children
Midas Marie Vance 1922-1922
Paul Thomas Vance 1924-2000
Cecil Alexander Vance 1927-2002
Louise Vance Laws 1929-2011
Originally Created by: Autumn (46833368)
Added: 14 Nov 2009
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44332726/thomas_mccoy-vance
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 May 2020), memorial page for Thomas McCoy “Mack” Vance (25 Jun 1895-23 Aug 1974), Find a Grave Memorial no. 44332726, citing Stamey Family Cemetery, Avery County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
GRAVE:
Donald “Don” Carpenter
Birth: 3 Jun 1938
Death: 2 Aug 2017 (aged 79)
Burial: Pisgah United Methodist Church Cemetery, Altamont, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Memorial #: 182042844
Bio:
Don was the son of the late Viola Baker and George Carpenter.
Don served as a Deputy Sheriff in Forsyth County for 29 years, retiring as Lieutenant in 1995.
He was a member of The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #8.
Survivors include his loving wife of 53 years, Carol Dellinger Carpenter of the home; daughter, Donna Peterson of Kernersville.
Family Members
Parents
George Alexander Carpenter 1881-1966
Viola Baker Carpenter 1900-1966
Half Siblings
Flossie Alma Carpenter Essic 1904-1960
Florence Carpenter Terrell 1908-1965
William Delana Carpenter 1910-1973
Created by: Linda Mathis (47970564)
Added: 4 Aug 2017
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182042844/donald-carpenter
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 May 2020), memorial page for Donald “Don” Carpenter (3 Jun 1938–2 Aug 2017), Find a Grave Memorial no. 182042844, citing Pisgah United Methodist Church Cemetery, Altamont, Avery County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Linda Mathis (contributor 47970564) .
GRAVE: image
Flossie Alma Carpenter Essic
Birth: 9 Oct 1904 Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Death: 10 Nov 1960 (aged 56) Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Burial: Salem Moravian God's Acre, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Plot: Square 4CD Row 2 Grave 15
Memorial #: 62540673
Inscription: O Lamb of God, I come.
Family Members
Parents
George Alexander Carpenter 1881-1966
Maggie Bell Beam Carpenter 1886-1932
Spouse
Carl Franklin Essic 1900-1980
Siblings
Florence Carpenter Terrell 1908-1965
William Delana Carpenter 1910-1973
Half Siblings
Donald Carpenter 1938-2017
Children
Jerry Norris Essic 1940-2010
Created by: DeLoss McKnight III (46605619)
Added: 4 Dec 2010
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62540673/flossie-alma-essic
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 May 2020), memorial page for Flossie Alma Carpenter Essic (9 Oct 1904–10 Nov 1960), Find a Grave Memorial no. 62540673, citing Salem Moravian God's Acre, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by DeLoss McKnight III (contributor 46605619) .
GRAVE:
Carl Franklin Essic
Birth: 2 Jul 1900 Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Death: 30 Mar 1980 (aged 79) Rural Hall, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Burial: Salem Moravian God's Acre, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Plot: Square 2EE Row 4 Grave 2
Memorial #: 100127452
Inscription: Amen, yea, my lot is blest.
Family Members
Parents
Jacob Franklin Essic 1866-1930
Phoebe Evelyn Shoaf Essic 1872-1947
Spouse
Flossie Alma Carpenter Essic 1904-1960
Siblings
Theodore Augustus Essic 1905-1975
Lillian Essic Cress 1907-1961
Ruth Naomi Essic Gray 1911-1982
Children
Jerry Norris Essic 1940-2010
Created by: tyFlowers (47311801)
Added: 4 Nov 2012
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100127452/carl-franklin-essic
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 May 2020), memorial page for Carl Franklin Essic (2 Jul 1900–30 Mar 1980), Find a Grave Memorial no. 100127452, citing Salem Moravian God's Acre, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by tyFlowers (contributor 47311801) .
GRAVE: not really - cremated - memorial only
Jerry Norris Essic
Birth: 2 Jun 1940 Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Death: 15 Aug 2010 (aged 70) Rural Hall, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
Burial: Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
Memorial #: 57287633
Bio:
US ARMY
VIETNAMRURAL HALL - Jerry Norris Essic, 70, of Rural Hall, passed away August 15, 2010 at his residence.
He was born June 2, 1940 in Forsyth County to the late Carl Franklin and Flossie Carpenter Essic.
Jerry graduated RJ Reynolds Class of 1958 and continued his education for a BA, graduating Wake Forest University in 1962.
He also served in the US Army and was a Vietnam Veteran.
Survivors include his wife, Lynora Greene Essic; children, Holly (Tom) LaPonte of Lewisville and Tyler Essic of Kernersville; one grandson, Hayden LaPonte.
A memorial service will be held at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, August 19 at Rural Hall Moravian Church with Rev. Steve Craver officiating.
Visitation to follow in the Fellowship Hall.
Memorial Contributions may be made to the Rural Hall Moravian Church Building Fund, 7939 Broad St., Rural Hall, NC 27045 or to Hospice & Palliative Care Center, 101 Hospice Ln, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.Published in Winston-Salem Journal on August 18, 2010
Family Members
Parents
Carl Franklin Essic 1900-1980
Flossie Alma Carpenter Essic 1904-1960
Created by: isabel (46810993)
Added: 18 Aug 2010
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57287633/jerry-norris-essic
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 May 2020), memorial page for Jerry Norris Essic (2 Jun 1940–15 Aug 2010), Find a Grave Memorial no. 57287633, ; Maintained by isabel (contributor 46810993) Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown.