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Notes for GEORGE HENRY LAKE:
Henry never married. He was an epileptic and died in an epileptic seizure in Fairmont, West Virginia. The following is the County Coroner's report of the strange circumstances leading to the death of George Henry Lake:
Coroner's Record Book 1 - Page 89
Marion County, Fairmont, West Virginia - May 9, 1907
Received telephone message from Clarence Musgrave that a man by the name of Lake was at his morgue dead and I went to the said morgue and there found George Henry Lake dead and the facts as gathered are as follows:
George Henry Lake, an epileptic from childhood, single and about 30 years old, and lives in Union District near Taylor County line, came to Fairmont this day with his father, Thomas Lake, and became somewhat intoxicated and patrolman John S. Price arrested him at E. A. Billingslea's Drug Store and Lake was taken down Bridge or Madison Street to Washington and then turned out Washington and when about even with L. L. Fleming's livery barn the prisoner became unmanageable and chains were placed on his arms near his shoulder and he was carried or dragged to the city bastille and placed therein and almost immediately thereafter became violent with an epileptic fit and was beyond the control of the officials. Dr. W. H. Kunst, city physician, was summoned and gave 1/4 gr. morphine hypodermic and after waiting some 20 minutes and no results discernable, he administered a second hypodermic of apomorphia and the patient quieted down. Dr. Kunst went to visit another patient near Barrackville and about 4 o'clock Dr. V. A. Selby was called and found Lake in a comatose state and advised that he be taken to a hospital at once and the city hospital ambulance was called and before the patient reached said hospital his heart had ceased to beat and he was a dead man. The body was ordered held for a post-mortem, but from some misunderstanding, the undertaker embalmed the body before the coroner knew of it. Then a consultation was held by Prosecuting Attorney S. C. Lowe, Drs. Henry, Selby, Kunst, and Holland and the coroner and after the consultation the said four doctors visited the undertaking rooms and examined the dead body, and found that a post mortem would be of no avail as the body had been embalmed, hence an inquest was abandoned. Therefore as coroner, I am of opinion and do so declare that George Henry Lake came to his death on the 9th of May 1907 at or near 6 o'clock p.m. in Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia from over stimulation caused from being an epileptic, intoxicated, over exertion in resisting the officers and the hypodermics administered, causing the shock or over stimulation and death. In testimony whereof I set my hand.
E. S. Amos, Coroner
Marion County, West Virginia
He had some bruises on elbows, hips and legs but not serious and caused by his struggles while in said epileptic fit. Undertaker Eli Musgrave and Sons took charge of the remains and burial took place on May 11, 1907 near his home in the Lake Graveyard. He was said to have some property of his own. The case is a very sad one indeed and much censure is placed at the doors of different parties but nothing definite is known.
(1) Marion County (WV) Death Book 4 - Page 92.
(2) Marion County Coroners Record Book 1 - Page 89.
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