Watts - Albert - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Last Monday afternoon Albert Watts, aged twenty seven, of New Richmond, died suddenly of heart disease, upon returning from a rabbit hunt. The young man had always been troubled to some extent with his heart, and last summer sustained a severe illness of typhoid fever, but had practically recovered from the effects of the latter. Monday he went rabbit hunting and upon returning in the evening went into the kitchen where his mother was sitting, set his gun in the corner, dropped his game on the floor, knelt at his mother’s knees, placed his hands in her lap and gazed up at her with a distressed, appealing look. Immediately perceiving that something was wrong Mrs. Watts called help and the son was placed on a bed, where he expired before medical help could arrive. He never spoke a word after entering the house. The deceased was a young man of excellent character, and while its manner was, perhaps, not wholly unexpected, his death is a distressing one. The funeral occurred at the Christian Church in New Richmond Wednesday at 2 o’clock. -s