Pulaski County Democrat 24 Dec 1908:
Fell To Instant Death!
Howard Hagenbush Meets With Fatal Accident…Henry Howard Hagenbush was born in Marshall county, May 6, 1871, his age at death being 37 years, 7 months and 15 days. He came to Winamac as a brick mason to work on the present school house just about the time he became of age. He liked the town, people liked his splendid workmanship and his genial, accommodating disposition, and he has been here ever since. In 1895 he married to Miss Gertrude Clark. To them came two daughters. The wife and mother died Nov. 11, 1898, and twelve days later the two weeks old baby girl was laid by her side, leaving to the doubly bereaved father the care of the daughter Helen then two years of age–a labor of love which he has sacredly performed, with the invaluable aid of the child’s maternal grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Clark. ….Besides the daughter and mother-in-law he leaves father, one brother and three sisters. The former is Israel Hagenbush, who for years had been and is yet marshal of Argos: brother William of Argos; and sisters Mrs. S. E. Chapin of Oklahoma, Mrs. John Wiley of South Bend and Mrs. Daniel Bair of Wabash. All of these, with their wives or husbands respectively, and also Henry Freese, Mrs. Andrews Edwards and Miss Pearl Chapin of Argos, J. B. Runkle and wife of Royal Center, Mrs. O. L. Gruwell and daughter Marie of Logansport and Mrs. Clara Leffel of North Manchester, the last three ladies named being sisters of the deceased Mrs. Hagenbush, were here for the funeral. This afternoon, escorted by a long line of brother Woodmen, Odd Fellows ad Masons, his body was borne up the hill and laid beside those of wife and baby, the beautiful burial rites voicing the sorrowful farewell of brothers and friends.1