OBITUARY:
DIED -- SCHOMAKER -- At the family home in South Salem, November 22, 1893, from an injury of the windpipe caused by a fall, Grover Adlai, son of Mr. And Mrs. Henry Schomaker, aged 14 months and 13 days. The funeral services will be held from the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock and the interment in Rural cemetery.
Oregon Statesman 23 Nov 1893 4:4
CHILD'S POSTMORTEM - Drs. Byrd and Smith and Dr. J. Reynold's made a postmortem examination of the remians of the child of Henry Shoemaker this forenoon. It died in a great suffering from some injury to the throat. Dissection revealed that it had swallowed a large sized lady's dress hook several days ago and it was detained in its passage to the windpipe by the vocal chords.
Capital Journal, 23 Nov 1893, pg 4
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