William John COREY^[1]

1897 - 1915  (17 years)

• Name	William John COREY
  Birth	29 Oct 1897	East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  _UID	A4A31FEDD07A461588779C9EC0409EB281EC
  Death	30 May 1915	East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut
  Burial	Granby Cemetery, Granby, Connecticut
  Person ID	I8955	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	4 May 2002

  
  

  Father	John Sylvester COREY,   b. 25 May 1871, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut d. 24 Jun 1954, Deland, Florida (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Annis May BRADLEY,   b. 1 Aug 1880, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut d. 9 Jun 1914, East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	31 Mar 1897	Copper Hill, East Granby, Connecticut
  Family ID	F4543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  REFN: 43 Birth Certificate reads "John Corey" not "William John Corey". Newsp aper Clipping - Granby - dated June 4, 1915 "VERY SAD CASE - One Boy Shoots Br other in Corey Home. One of Saddest Accidents in History of Granby. Roy Cor ey, a boy about 13 years old, came into his home about noon Saturday, having in his hands a shotgun, with which he intended shooting at rats and as he sto od in the doors, the gun was discharged. As near as can be ascertained the boy stood in the door with the gun in his hand and had pushed a loaded shell int o the chamber and the cartridge was exploded when he snapped the breach block into place, the hammer on the gun being set wrongly. The charge of shot ent ered the thigh of his older brother, William Corey, who was sitting at a tabl e near the door at the time, severing the femoral artery and passed across th e lower part of the abdomen making a surface wound all of the way. Dr. V. J. Irwin was summoned by telephone as soon as possible by the boy who done the shooting and he did all that he could for the injured lad, but the loss of blood and been too great and he died Sunday afternoon. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon in the home of John Corey at Granby station and the service was conducted by Rev. F. Barrows Makepeace, pastor of the South church in Gr anby and the burial was in Granby cemetery by the side of the mother of the b oy who died about a year ago after a long illness from tuberculosis. The dec eased boy was the elder of three and was employed by John S. Dewey on his tob acco farm close by. Of the three boys he was the only one that was in perfec t health each of the others being chronic invalids to a degree. Mr. Corey is employed in a store near Granby station and is a man highly respected and es teemed by all in Granby. He has had to undergo losses, first of his wife, af ter a long illness and now of his eldest son, that calls out the sympathy of all in the community to a rare degree" Note: The descendants of Roy are not aw are on any childhood health problems.

  
  

• Sources

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