Bates County Obituaries

 

SCHILLER, Charles (1870 - 1930)
From the Bates County Democrat September 18, 1930. Submitted by Sandee Hubbard
Died Suddenly - Chas. Schiller, aged 58 years, died suddenly while at work in a field on the Stanfill farm in Elkhart township Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Schiller with several other men, were engaged in cutting corn. He became violently ill and within a few minutes was dead. Dr. C. M. Rice of this city, county coroner, was called and after learning the particulars decided an inquest was unnecessary. Mr. Schiller was born February 14, 1872. For some time past he had been a resident of Elkhart township. Surviving him are his wife and four children, all of the home. Mr. Schiller was a brother of John Schiller who was sentenced to the penitentiary in Bates county circuit court at the May term after he had entered a plea of guilty to choking his wife to death in their rooms in this city.