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- June 10, 1911 - Peyton C. Halsey, age 51 years, 3 months, 2 days, Married, Farmer, born in New York, Son of Mortha Halsey born in Rhode Island, and Sarah Barnes born in New York, died in Richland Township of accidental gunshot wound of left breast and head, shock.
Newspaper Article - Monday Morning, June 12, 1911 The Post-Standard - Syracuse, New York - Shot While After Crows - Payton C. Halsey Receives Wound Which May Prove Fatal - An Accidental Discharge - Hole Nearly the size of a Silver Dollar Torn in Breast of Pulaski Farmer by Charge of Shot - Pulaski, June 11 - Payton C. Halsey, aged about 50 years, a well-known farmer living about three miles south of this village, is in a precarious condition at his home as the result of a shooting accident which occurred about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon and which may prove fatal. The physicians say, however, there is a bare chance of recovery. Mr. Halsey took his loaded shotgun and started for the cornfield for the purpose of shooting crows. In crawling through a fence, holding the gun in his right hand, the trigger, it is supposed, caught, discharged the weapon, the contents of the gun passing through the left-hand, completely severing the thumb and the third and fourth fingers. The shot also entered the left breast just above the heart. A large hole nearly the size of a silver dollar was torn in the breast. The left lung was also punctured. Some of the shot pierced the face. Wads from the gun passed along the line of the neck and followed up the sternum, which were extracted by the physicians. Dr. F. E. MacCallum and Dr. Charles E. Low of this village remained a greater part of the afternoon with the injured man. Mr. Halsey, after the gun was discharged, managed to reach the barn, some distance _ _ John Wolcott, a farmhand, who with others went to his assistants. He was carried into the house and the physicians were soon on hand. Mr. Halsey relapsed into a semi-conscious state. A telegram was sent to Roy W. Halsey, a son, who is in a Woolworth store in New York.
Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, June 14, 1911 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - A Shocking Fatality - P. C. Halsey Accidentally Shot - Friday afternoon our community was shocked when the news spread that Peyton C. Halsey, a farmer living about two miles south of the village, had been accidentally shot. Drs. F. E. MacCallum and C. E. Low were summoned and found that Mr. Halsey was in a very critical condition from a gunshot wound in his left breast and left hand was terribly lacerated. Mr. Halsey had been out in the field in the forenoon shooting crows and was returning to the house and while going through a barbed wire fence his gun discharged, the contents passing through his hand and into his left breast above his heart. He called and his hired man heard him and quickly went to his aid. He was coming toward the house and exclaimed, "The gun exploded." He got to the house by the assistance of the young man but had bled profusely and was very weak. All that could be done was done but he failed rapidly and died about eight o'clock the next morning. Mr. Halsey was born in the south part of this town fifty-one years ago. He has always resided here and has been engaged in farming. Twenty-one years ago he married Leola M. Howard, of Mexico. To them has been born four children, two of whom, Ray, of New York and Donald, at home with the wife survive, also two sisters, Mrs. Laura Conant of this village and Mrs. C. H. Norton of Syracuse. Mr. Halsey was a man who had many friends and stood high in the community. He was an industrious and honorable man. A regular attendant at the Congregational church and interested in all that tends to the welfare of the community. His funeral was largely attended from the home yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. H. A. Lawrence of the Congregational church officiating.
Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, June 21, 1911 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - In Memoriam - Peyton Clarence Halsey was born in the town of Richland, March 8, 1860 to Maltby and Sarah A. Halsey and died at his home near Pulaski village June 10, 1911. After his father's death the mother with her two daughters and little son, (six years of age) removed to Fernwood, where they lived a number of years. January 22, 1890 he was married to Miss Lola M. Howard, of Mexico, and to his Fernwood house he brought his wife. A year later they moved to the farm which has since been their home. To them were born five children, Ray Howard, Donald Peyton, and three little daughters, who died in infancy. His widow, two sons and two sisters, Mrs. Laura Conant, Pulaski, and Mrs. Clarence Norton, Syracuse, survive. A man of great activity, high thinking, a loving and indulgent husband and father, courageous and brave to the last, he has, in the prime of life gone to his reward. His going leaves not only a great sorrow in the hearts of the family, but in the entire community where he loved all his fellow men. The large gathering of sorrowing friends, the abundance of beautiful flowers and the words of sympathy expressed, testified in a _ure to the love and esteem in which he was held. The obsequies were held at the family home, Tuesday, June 13, at 2 p.m. Rev. H. A. Lawrence of the Congregational church officiating, and who spoke words of comfort and love. Interment was made in the family plot at Pulaski cemetery.
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