From the Morganton Herald, 28 Mar 1895:
"Sunday morning, Mar. 24th, the sad news reached here from Charlotte, that George Phifer had just died there. George Phifer, the third son of our esteemed townsman, Capt. Geo. L. Phifer, was born 19th February 1875, and was in his twenty first year. He was a young man of strong robust constitution and was in splendid health until a week before he died. He was in the U.S. Railway Mail Service between Washington and Charlotte. ON reaching the latter place on his regular trip Saturday night, Mar. 16th, he went to the Post Office and complained of feeling badly. He laid down for a while there, and got worse, when his friends moved him to the home of his relative, Mr. George E. Wilson. Dr. Gibbons was summoned and came at once: George told the doctor that he feared he had appendicitis. He appeared to be getting along nicely up to Tuesday morning, when alarming symptoms developed, and a consultation of physicians pronounced his trouble appendicitis. His parents were at once telegraphed for, and Tuesday night Capt. and Mrs. Phifer and Molton were telegraphed for. Wednesday morning a surgical operation to get at the seat of the trouble was successfully performed, and George was thought to be doing well tho' his condition was still critical. He continued in the same condition up to Saturday at noon, when symptoms of an alarming nature were developed. He continued to grow worse, till about 7 o'clock p.m., when lock jaw and severe pains set in and he died at 8:30. The immediate cause of his death was gangrene or blood poisoning resultant from the operation. The best medical aid in the city of Charlotte visited and consulted about the aptient but withou avail. The remains were brought to Morganton Sunday on the 1 o'clock train, accompanied by the bereaved parents and brother of the deceased. Before the funeral, at 4 o'clock, the remains lay at Miss Adelaide Avery's and were taken from there to the Presbyterian church, and thence to the cemetery where the interment took place.
"Sunday morning, Mar. 24th, the sad news reached here from Charlotte, that George Phifer had just died there. George Phifer, the third son of our esteemed townsman, Capt. Geo. L. Phifer, was born 19th February 1875, and was in his twenty first year. He was a young man of strong robust constitution and was in splendid health until a week before he died. He was in the U.S. Railway Mail Service between Washington and Charlotte. ON reaching the latter place on his regular trip Saturday night, Mar. 16th, he went to the Post Office and complained of feeling badly. He laid down for a while there, and got worse, when his friends moved him to the home of his relative, Mr. George E. Wilson. Dr. Gibbons was summoned and came at once: George told the doctor that he feared he had appendicitis. He appeared to be getting along nicely up to Tuesday morning, when alarming symptoms developed, and a consultation of physicians pronounced his trouble appendicitis. His parents were at once telegraphed for, and Tuesday night Capt. and Mrs. Phifer and Molton were telegraphed for. Wednesday morning a surgical operation to get at the seat of the trouble was successfully performed, and George was thought to be doing well tho' his condition was still critical. He continued in the same condition up to Saturday at noon, when symptoms of an alarming nature were developed. He continued to grow worse, till about 7 o'clock p.m., when lock jaw and severe pains set in and he died at 8:30. The immediate cause of his death was gangrene or blood poisoning resultant from the operation. The best medical aid in the city of Charlotte visited and consulted about the aptient but withou avail. The remains were brought to Morganton Sunday on the 1 o'clock train, accompanied by the bereaved parents and brother of the deceased. Before the funeral, at 4 o'clock, the remains lay at Miss Adelaide Avery's and were taken from there to the Presbyterian church, and thence to the cemetery where the interment took place.
From the Morganton Herald, 28 Mar 1895:
"Sunday morning, Mar. 24th, the sad news reached here from Charlotte, that George Phifer had just died there. George Phifer, the third son of our esteemed townsman, Capt. Geo. L. Phifer, was born 19th February 1875, and was in his twenty first year. He was a young man of strong robust constitution and was in splendid health until a week before he died. He was in the U.S. Railway Mail Service between Washington and Charlotte. ON reaching the latter place on his regular trip Saturday night, Mar. 16th, he went to the Post Office and complained of feeling badly. He laid down for a while there, and got worse, when his friends moved him to the home of his relative, Mr. George E. Wilson. Dr. Gibbons was summoned and came at once: George told the doctor that he feared he had appendicitis. He appeared to be getting along nicely up to Tuesday morning, when alarming symptoms developed, and a consultation of physicians pronounced his trouble appendicitis. His parents were at once telegraphed for, and Tuesday night Capt. and Mrs. Phifer and Molton were telegraphed for. Wednesday morning a surgical operation to get at the seat of the trouble was successfully performed, and George was thought to be doing well tho' his condition was still critical. He continued in the same condition up to Saturday at noon, when symptoms of an alarming nature were developed. He continued to grow worse, till about 7 o'clock p.m., when lock jaw and severe pains set in and he died at 8:30. The immediate cause of his death was gangrene or blood poisoning resultant from the operation. The best medical aid in the city of Charlotte visited and consulted about the aptient but withou avail. The remains were brought to Morganton Sunday on the 1 o'clock train, accompanied by the bereaved parents and brother of the deceased. Before the funeral, at 4 o'clock, the remains lay at Miss Adelaide Avery's and were taken from there to the Presbyterian church, and thence to the cemetery where the interment took place.
"Sunday morning, Mar. 24th, the sad news reached here from Charlotte, that George Phifer had just died there. George Phifer, the third son of our esteemed townsman, Capt. Geo. L. Phifer, was born 19th February 1875, and was in his twenty first year. He was a young man of strong robust constitution and was in splendid health until a week before he died. He was in the U.S. Railway Mail Service between Washington and Charlotte. ON reaching the latter place on his regular trip Saturday night, Mar. 16th, he went to the Post Office and complained of feeling badly. He laid down for a while there, and got worse, when his friends moved him to the home of his relative, Mr. George E. Wilson. Dr. Gibbons was summoned and came at once: George told the doctor that he feared he had appendicitis. He appeared to be getting along nicely up to Tuesday morning, when alarming symptoms developed, and a consultation of physicians pronounced his trouble appendicitis. His parents were at once telegraphed for, and Tuesday night Capt. and Mrs. Phifer and Molton were telegraphed for. Wednesday morning a surgical operation to get at the seat of the trouble was successfully performed, and George was thought to be doing well tho' his condition was still critical. He continued in the same condition up to Saturday at noon, when symptoms of an alarming nature were developed. He continued to grow worse, till about 7 o'clock p.m., when lock jaw and severe pains set in and he died at 8:30. The immediate cause of his death was gangrene or blood poisoning resultant from the operation. The best medical aid in the city of Charlotte visited and consulted about the aptient but withou avail. The remains were brought to Morganton Sunday on the 1 o'clock train, accompanied by the bereaved parents and brother of the deceased. Before the funeral, at 4 o'clock, the remains lay at Miss Adelaide Avery's and were taken from there to the Presbyterian church, and thence to the cemetery where the interment took place.
Inscription
Son of George L. and Martha A. Phifer
Family Members
Siblings
Advertisement
Advertisement
