Jackson County, Ohio

Jackson County Obituaries

Harry Hickman

HARRY HICKMAN FALLS DEAD FROM HEART DISEASE

Jackson Twp. Farmer Found By Wife In Salt Creek

HAD HAD ATTACKS

Had Left Home After Plowing To Set Traps Failed To Return

Just at dusk Wednesday evening, Mrs. Harry Hickman found her husband dead in Salt creek near the Pleasant Valley church resting in about two feet of water. Mr. Hickman had been plowing most of the day but a rain came up in the afternoon and he put away his team. He told Mrs. Hickman that he would take the opportunity to set some traps along the creek. She warned him to be careful because the banks were slippery. He laughingly remarked that there was not enough water in Salt creek to drown him. He said he would return in about an hour but when his return was delayed she became uneasy and went out to see if she could discover why he was delayed. She saw Pearl Sickles, who lives on the Gillen Farm, formerly owned by E. H. Willis and adjoining the Hickman farm. She told him where she was going and he joined Mrs. Hickman and her son, the only child, about 11 years of age. They walked down the creek and finally saw Mr. Hickman's cap just in the edge of the water. Sickles carried a stick which he used to walk with and when he saw something partly submerged in the water he touched it with the stick and it proved to be his neighbor. The body was taken from the creek and the undertaker C. L. Wood and the Coroner, Dr. W. H. Monahan were called. It was plainly to be seen that he had plunged head foremost into the water as the tracks showed he had not slid. He had been in the water about two feet deep for three hours or more and there was no water in the lungs. On a former occasion, he had fallen in the house and had almost died from a heart attack. The verdict of the coroner was that he had undoubtedly suffered another attack and he was beyond question dead before he hit the water. Mr. Hickman was a well-known farmer owning his own property and he was 39 years of age. His mother, Mrs. Ethel Hickman, survives him and one brother, Jack Hickman, of Waverly. He also has two sisters, Mrs. Frank Green and Mrs. Owen Webster of Columbus. Funeral services will be held at his home Saturday at 10 o'clock and the burial will be in the Hickman cemetery by Funeral Director Charles L. Wood.

Jackson Herald, Jackson OH; January 21, 1928

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