Joseph A Shadle - Ottokee cemetery - Wauseon, OH - Death Mask Gravestones on Waymarking.com

Joseph Allen Shadle was born January 16, 1866 in Wauseon, Ohio. He married Rose Amelia Seibold in 1887 and they moved to the new state of Washington. When Joseph died, on March 3, 1894, he was sent back to his hometown for burial.

There was some mystery surrounding Joseph Shadle's death. Newspaper clippings shown on the Find a Grave site show a story of possible foul play:

"March 1894
Death of Joseph Shadle, of Fort Steilacoom, Washington
Last Saturday afternoon, Allen Shadle of Wauseon, received a letter from his son and only child, Joseph Shadle of Fort Steilacoom, Washington, in which he stated that he was well, but much worn on account of caring for his wife through a severe spell of sickness. On that same evening Mr. Shadle received a dispatch from Fort Steilacoom conveying the sad intelligence that the son Joseph had just died of apoplexy. His remains will be brought home and buried in the cemetery at Ottokee.

Joseph Shadle was of course a native of Fulton county. Six years ago he married Miss Amelia Seybold and immediately thereafter they emigrated to the new State of Washington, where prosperity seemed to attend them. He was at the time of his death a member of the Washington legislature, and Superintendent of the asylum for insane at Fort Steilacoom. Mr. Shadle was of course well known in this county and scores of friends wil be sorrow stricken at the news of his sudden death."



"March 30, 1894 Joseph Shadle's body exhumed after it had been buried a week. There are rumors of poisoning.

A few weeks since, news reached here that Joseph Shadle, jr, of Fort Steilacoom, Washington, had died suddenly of apoplexy and that friends with his remains would leave that city for Wauseon the same evening. They arrived here with the body and it was taken to the residence of Allen Shadle, father of the dead man. Funeral services were held and the remains interred in the Ottokee cemetery. Lately indications of foul play have been discovered, leaving the impression that Mr. Shadle was poisoned. His body has been exhumed and the brain found to be perfectly sound. The stomach is now being examined by Dr. William J. Hamlen, professor of chemistry of the Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery at Detroit. Shadle had filled positions of trust and responsibility in Washington, among them representative to the legislature and the office of accountant and stewart of the state insane asylum. The latter position he was filling at the time of his death."

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Name of Cemetery: Ottokee cemetery Condition of Death Mask: very good Gravestone Inscription: BORN JANUARY 16, 1866 DIED FORT STEILACOOM, WASHINGTON MARCH 3, 1894 AGED 28 YEARS MOTHER, THIS WORLD OF OURS SEEMS LIKE A GREAT MYSTERY, OFTEN IN MY DREAMING HOURS I THINK OF THE WORLD BEYOND. YOUR SON JOSIE, AGE 14.

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