Neck
Broken in Fall
Farmington (Michigan)
Enterprise: -- While helping to draw in to the barn at the C. W.
Lewis farm just west of town last Saturday, Charles A. Rusling in
some manner fell from the top of the barn down a haychute, a
distance of some 22 feet, and was dead when found by his companions
shortly after.
Mr. Rusling had preceeded the
load to the barn and had evidently sat down on the edge of the chute
to rest, and fell over backwards. The rest of the party hearing the
noise began to investigate and founded him dead at the bottom, his
neck broken. Two bunches of oats and the
tin cover that was on the top of the chute fell with him, No one saw
the accident.
Charles Alton Rusling was
born in 1872 at Bloomsburg, Ontario, and came to Detroit about 20
years ago. He was married to Miss Wilhelmina Mulheron, and three
sons were born to them, two of whom are living, Charles, aged 15,
and Morris, aged 6.
About 10 years ago the family
came to Farmington and resided here for about three years, then
returning to Detroit, and four years ago came back and have lived
here since.
He leaves a father, mother,
and four sisters in Ontario, one in British Columbia, and three
brothers in California.
He was a member of Farmington
Lodge, No. 151,
A.F. and A. M.
Funeral services were held at
his late home, west of the town, and interment was made in Oakwood
Cemetery.
Those of his immediately
family who attended the
funeral were his sisters, Mrs. W. F. [sic] Schuyler,
Mrs. Hayes Youmans, and Mrs. N. C. Butler, and
Mr. W. F. Schuyler, all of Simcoe.
