Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — Little Sharp Boy Is Dead. [ARTICLE]

Little Sharp Boy Is Dead.

George Wellington Sharp, Jr., son of G. W. Sharp, of Indianapolis, injured last Sunday at his home in Indianapolis while crossing the street car tracks, died in St. Vincent’s hospital Thursday evening at five o’clock, without regaining consciousness. His age was 5 years, 3 months and 11 days. He was born May 11, 1903.

Mr. Sharp, who came here Thursday to attend the funeral of his wife, who received injuries at the same time as her son, and which resulted in her death, was in Rensselaer when his son passed away. Charles Hulce, of Indianapolis, -a brother of Mrs. Sharp, and Charles Rishling, of Rensselaer, went to Indianapolis Thursday after the funeral, but did not reach there before the death of the child. They returned here with the body Friday evening on the 6:32 train and were taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rlshllng, from which the funeral services were held at' 10 a. m. Saturday. Mr. Sharp, who was in the south at the time of the accident, was not aware of his wife’s death until he reached Cincinnati, where he read an account of the death in an Indianapolis paper. The news of her death came as a great shock to him. The telegram recalling him to Indianapolis simply stated that his wife was seriously injured and contained no intimation of her* death.

The other son, Harold, aged three years, who was Injured in the same accident that resulted in the death of his mother and brother, is not in a serious condition.