Mrs. Susan Mummey, 64, of Ferndale, near Ringtown was shot and killed at her home early Saturday evening by an assailant who fired a shotgun at her through a first floor window.
The murder was not reported until daylight Sunday morning when her adopted daughter “Totty” and a boarder Jacob Rice telephoned for a Ringtown doctor who in turn notified the Tamaqua detail of the State Police.
The killing is surrounded by what the police term an element of mystery, coupled with genuine fear upon the part of the residents of the section that they too may be made a victim of the killer’s bullets.
Buried behind the actual details of the killing are all the elements of a mountain feud and deep rooted hatred that has cropped to the surface time and time again during the past decade or more that has marked the appearance in the county courts of several trivial cases which only served to fire the hatred of the persons into the flame of what reached the proportions of a “Hill Billy Feud.”.
Mrs. Mummery and her family lived in deadly fear that something would happen and they hid behind a reserve of fear and determination to keep their troubles to themselves.
County Detective Buono said the killing bore all the ear marks of a “killer” hatred that finally culminated in one attempt to shoot the woman as she was in the house alone, and was followed by a successful when the person who did the shooting fired directly at the woman from the window as her adopted daughter stood beside her, holding a lamp.
The blast of the shotgun was sufficient to extinguish the oil lamp and the two survivors waited until dawn until they gained sufficient courage to venture out of the house.
According to County Detectives Louis D., Buono, and John I. Ferns who are investigating the crime. The shooting occurred at 8 o’clock Saturday evening the bullet a pumpkin ball fired from a 12 gauge shotgun entered the front window of the living room. Shattering the window glass in its course. It struck the victim in the right side passing through the lung and heart and finally lodging in the stomach. The woman was bending over a couch at the time with her daughter ministering to a lame foot of Rice.
Chief Detective Buono said this morning that there was no question the women had been the victim of an assassin’s bullet and the police hoped to get the killer.
The Mummey house is located two and a half miles north of Ringtown and was occupied by the dead woman, Rice and the adopted daughter “Totty”. Totty is a victim of spinal meningitis is a cripple and Rice was suffering from an injured foot. Both were so thoroughly frightened that they feared to go out side of the house dreading they to would be shot. And it was daylight before Rice ventured out and made his way to a neighbor’s home. Where he was given an auto ride to Ringtown.
The police announced today that Mrs. Mummey had been threatened upon numerous occasions and they are convinced she was deliberately shot.
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Susan FUHRMAN
Born: 29-Jul-1870
Died: 17-Mar-1934 near Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa.
Father: John FUHRMAN
Mother: Lucy Ann ZIMMERMAN
murdered by Albert Yashinsky (who believed she had put a "hex" on him)
Albert lived with parents "Anthony & Agnes SHINSKY" next to Susan per 1930
census
Susan raised her older sister Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's daughter
Tovillia Violet BOYLE
1st Spouse (not married): Isaac Edward BROWN
Married: no
Born: 6-Nov-1864
Died: 29-Oct-1929
Buried: in Nuremberg cemetery, Penna.
Father:
Mother:
baptism & 1900 census records show birth year as 1864!
F Child 1: Amy Franza (BROWN) MUMEY
Born: 31 May 1891 in near Ringtown 1,2
Died: 8 Oct 1976 in Locust Mt. hospital, Shenandoah Pa. 3
2nd Spouse Husband: Henry MUMMEY
Married: 27-Mar-1897 see Schulykill docket 8-C319 4
Born: 15-Sep-1872 in Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa. 5
Died: 5-Jul-1910 in Union twsp. Schuylkill Co. Pa. 5
Buried: 9-Jul-1910 in St. John's Lutheran, Ringtown, Pa.
Cause of death: burns over entire body, powder mill explosion, killed in powder mill explosion at Ferndale 5
Father: Daniel J. MUMMEY
Mother: Caroline Regina REICH
His baptism sponsers were J.J.Stauffer & Lucy
He raised wife's daughter Amy and sister-in-law Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's
daughter Tovillia Violet BOYLE
The murder was not reported until daylight Sunday morning when her adopted daughter “Totty” and a boarder Jacob Rice telephoned for a Ringtown doctor who in turn notified the Tamaqua detail of the State Police.
The killing is surrounded by what the police term an element of mystery, coupled with genuine fear upon the part of the residents of the section that they too may be made a victim of the killer’s bullets.
Buried behind the actual details of the killing are all the elements of a mountain feud and deep rooted hatred that has cropped to the surface time and time again during the past decade or more that has marked the appearance in the county courts of several trivial cases which only served to fire the hatred of the persons into the flame of what reached the proportions of a “Hill Billy Feud.”.
Mrs. Mummery and her family lived in deadly fear that something would happen and they hid behind a reserve of fear and determination to keep their troubles to themselves.
County Detective Buono said the killing bore all the ear marks of a “killer” hatred that finally culminated in one attempt to shoot the woman as she was in the house alone, and was followed by a successful when the person who did the shooting fired directly at the woman from the window as her adopted daughter stood beside her, holding a lamp.
The blast of the shotgun was sufficient to extinguish the oil lamp and the two survivors waited until dawn until they gained sufficient courage to venture out of the house.
According to County Detectives Louis D., Buono, and John I. Ferns who are investigating the crime. The shooting occurred at 8 o’clock Saturday evening the bullet a pumpkin ball fired from a 12 gauge shotgun entered the front window of the living room. Shattering the window glass in its course. It struck the victim in the right side passing through the lung and heart and finally lodging in the stomach. The woman was bending over a couch at the time with her daughter ministering to a lame foot of Rice.
Chief Detective Buono said this morning that there was no question the women had been the victim of an assassin’s bullet and the police hoped to get the killer.
The Mummey house is located two and a half miles north of Ringtown and was occupied by the dead woman, Rice and the adopted daughter “Totty”. Totty is a victim of spinal meningitis is a cripple and Rice was suffering from an injured foot. Both were so thoroughly frightened that they feared to go out side of the house dreading they to would be shot. And it was daylight before Rice ventured out and made his way to a neighbor’s home. Where he was given an auto ride to Ringtown.
The police announced today that Mrs. Mummey had been threatened upon numerous occasions and they are convinced she was deliberately shot.
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Susan FUHRMAN
Born: 29-Jul-1870
Died: 17-Mar-1934 near Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa.
Father: John FUHRMAN
Mother: Lucy Ann ZIMMERMAN
murdered by Albert Yashinsky (who believed she had put a "hex" on him)
Albert lived with parents "Anthony & Agnes SHINSKY" next to Susan per 1930
census
Susan raised her older sister Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's daughter
Tovillia Violet BOYLE
1st Spouse (not married): Isaac Edward BROWN
Married: no
Born: 6-Nov-1864
Died: 29-Oct-1929
Buried: in Nuremberg cemetery, Penna.
Father:
Mother:
baptism & 1900 census records show birth year as 1864!
F Child 1: Amy Franza (BROWN) MUMEY
Born: 31 May 1891 in near Ringtown 1,2
Died: 8 Oct 1976 in Locust Mt. hospital, Shenandoah Pa. 3
2nd Spouse Husband: Henry MUMMEY
Married: 27-Mar-1897 see Schulykill docket 8-C319 4
Born: 15-Sep-1872 in Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa. 5
Died: 5-Jul-1910 in Union twsp. Schuylkill Co. Pa. 5
Buried: 9-Jul-1910 in St. John's Lutheran, Ringtown, Pa.
Cause of death: burns over entire body, powder mill explosion, killed in powder mill explosion at Ferndale 5
Father: Daniel J. MUMMEY
Mother: Caroline Regina REICH
His baptism sponsers were J.J.Stauffer & Lucy
He raised wife's daughter Amy and sister-in-law Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's
daughter Tovillia Violet BOYLE
Mrs. Susan Mummey, 64, of Ferndale, near Ringtown was shot and killed at her home early Saturday evening by an assailant who fired a shotgun at her through a first floor window.
The murder was not reported until daylight Sunday morning when her adopted daughter “Totty” and a boarder Jacob Rice telephoned for a Ringtown doctor who in turn notified the Tamaqua detail of the State Police.
The killing is surrounded by what the police term an element of mystery, coupled with genuine fear upon the part of the residents of the section that they too may be made a victim of the killer’s bullets.
Buried behind the actual details of the killing are all the elements of a mountain feud and deep rooted hatred that has cropped to the surface time and time again during the past decade or more that has marked the appearance in the county courts of several trivial cases which only served to fire the hatred of the persons into the flame of what reached the proportions of a “Hill Billy Feud.”.
Mrs. Mummery and her family lived in deadly fear that something would happen and they hid behind a reserve of fear and determination to keep their troubles to themselves.
County Detective Buono said the killing bore all the ear marks of a “killer” hatred that finally culminated in one attempt to shoot the woman as she was in the house alone, and was followed by a successful when the person who did the shooting fired directly at the woman from the window as her adopted daughter stood beside her, holding a lamp.
The blast of the shotgun was sufficient to extinguish the oil lamp and the two survivors waited until dawn until they gained sufficient courage to venture out of the house.
According to County Detectives Louis D., Buono, and John I. Ferns who are investigating the crime. The shooting occurred at 8 o’clock Saturday evening the bullet a pumpkin ball fired from a 12 gauge shotgun entered the front window of the living room. Shattering the window glass in its course. It struck the victim in the right side passing through the lung and heart and finally lodging in the stomach. The woman was bending over a couch at the time with her daughter ministering to a lame foot of Rice.
Chief Detective Buono said this morning that there was no question the women had been the victim of an assassin’s bullet and the police hoped to get the killer.
The Mummey house is located two and a half miles north of Ringtown and was occupied by the dead woman, Rice and the adopted daughter “Totty”. Totty is a victim of spinal meningitis is a cripple and Rice was suffering from an injured foot. Both were so thoroughly frightened that they feared to go out side of the house dreading they to would be shot. And it was daylight before Rice ventured out and made his way to a neighbor’s home. Where he was given an auto ride to Ringtown.
The police announced today that Mrs. Mummey had been threatened upon numerous occasions and they are convinced she was deliberately shot.
------------------------------------------------------------
Susan FUHRMAN
Born: 29-Jul-1870
Died: 17-Mar-1934 near Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa.
Father: John FUHRMAN
Mother: Lucy Ann ZIMMERMAN
murdered by Albert Yashinsky (who believed she had put a "hex" on him)
Albert lived with parents "Anthony & Agnes SHINSKY" next to Susan per 1930
census
Susan raised her older sister Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's daughter
Tovillia Violet BOYLE
1st Spouse (not married): Isaac Edward BROWN
Married: no
Born: 6-Nov-1864
Died: 29-Oct-1929
Buried: in Nuremberg cemetery, Penna.
Father:
Mother:
baptism & 1900 census records show birth year as 1864!
F Child 1: Amy Franza (BROWN) MUMEY
Born: 31 May 1891 in near Ringtown 1,2
Died: 8 Oct 1976 in Locust Mt. hospital, Shenandoah Pa. 3
2nd Spouse Husband: Henry MUMMEY
Married: 27-Mar-1897 see Schulykill docket 8-C319 4
Born: 15-Sep-1872 in Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa. 5
Died: 5-Jul-1910 in Union twsp. Schuylkill Co. Pa. 5
Buried: 9-Jul-1910 in St. John's Lutheran, Ringtown, Pa.
Cause of death: burns over entire body, powder mill explosion, killed in powder mill explosion at Ferndale 5
Father: Daniel J. MUMMEY
Mother: Caroline Regina REICH
His baptism sponsers were J.J.Stauffer & Lucy
He raised wife's daughter Amy and sister-in-law Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's
daughter Tovillia Violet BOYLE
The murder was not reported until daylight Sunday morning when her adopted daughter “Totty” and a boarder Jacob Rice telephoned for a Ringtown doctor who in turn notified the Tamaqua detail of the State Police.
The killing is surrounded by what the police term an element of mystery, coupled with genuine fear upon the part of the residents of the section that they too may be made a victim of the killer’s bullets.
Buried behind the actual details of the killing are all the elements of a mountain feud and deep rooted hatred that has cropped to the surface time and time again during the past decade or more that has marked the appearance in the county courts of several trivial cases which only served to fire the hatred of the persons into the flame of what reached the proportions of a “Hill Billy Feud.”.
Mrs. Mummery and her family lived in deadly fear that something would happen and they hid behind a reserve of fear and determination to keep their troubles to themselves.
County Detective Buono said the killing bore all the ear marks of a “killer” hatred that finally culminated in one attempt to shoot the woman as she was in the house alone, and was followed by a successful when the person who did the shooting fired directly at the woman from the window as her adopted daughter stood beside her, holding a lamp.
The blast of the shotgun was sufficient to extinguish the oil lamp and the two survivors waited until dawn until they gained sufficient courage to venture out of the house.
According to County Detectives Louis D., Buono, and John I. Ferns who are investigating the crime. The shooting occurred at 8 o’clock Saturday evening the bullet a pumpkin ball fired from a 12 gauge shotgun entered the front window of the living room. Shattering the window glass in its course. It struck the victim in the right side passing through the lung and heart and finally lodging in the stomach. The woman was bending over a couch at the time with her daughter ministering to a lame foot of Rice.
Chief Detective Buono said this morning that there was no question the women had been the victim of an assassin’s bullet and the police hoped to get the killer.
The Mummey house is located two and a half miles north of Ringtown and was occupied by the dead woman, Rice and the adopted daughter “Totty”. Totty is a victim of spinal meningitis is a cripple and Rice was suffering from an injured foot. Both were so thoroughly frightened that they feared to go out side of the house dreading they to would be shot. And it was daylight before Rice ventured out and made his way to a neighbor’s home. Where he was given an auto ride to Ringtown.
The police announced today that Mrs. Mummey had been threatened upon numerous occasions and they are convinced she was deliberately shot.
------------------------------------------------------------
Susan FUHRMAN
Born: 29-Jul-1870
Died: 17-Mar-1934 near Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa.
Father: John FUHRMAN
Mother: Lucy Ann ZIMMERMAN
murdered by Albert Yashinsky (who believed she had put a "hex" on him)
Albert lived with parents "Anthony & Agnes SHINSKY" next to Susan per 1930
census
Susan raised her older sister Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's daughter
Tovillia Violet BOYLE
1st Spouse (not married): Isaac Edward BROWN
Married: no
Born: 6-Nov-1864
Died: 29-Oct-1929
Buried: in Nuremberg cemetery, Penna.
Father:
Mother:
baptism & 1900 census records show birth year as 1864!
F Child 1: Amy Franza (BROWN) MUMEY
Born: 31 May 1891 in near Ringtown 1,2
Died: 8 Oct 1976 in Locust Mt. hospital, Shenandoah Pa. 3
2nd Spouse Husband: Henry MUMMEY
Married: 27-Mar-1897 see Schulykill docket 8-C319 4
Born: 15-Sep-1872 in Ringtown, Schulykill County Pa. 5
Died: 5-Jul-1910 in Union twsp. Schuylkill Co. Pa. 5
Buried: 9-Jul-1910 in St. John's Lutheran, Ringtown, Pa.
Cause of death: burns over entire body, powder mill explosion, killed in powder mill explosion at Ferndale 5
Father: Daniel J. MUMMEY
Mother: Caroline Regina REICH
His baptism sponsers were J.J.Stauffer & Lucy
He raised wife's daughter Amy and sister-in-law Lucy Katherine "Kate" FUHRMAN's
daughter Tovillia Violet BOYLE
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