John Deforest

john deforest 1839-1867

John was born in 1839.  She died at the age of 28 in 1867.

• General Notes

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  From the Oneonta Herald:
  8/7/1867
  A STRANGE AFFAIR. On Saturday last as John DeFOREST of Rogers Hollow, in Unadilla, was at work in a field near a piece of woods a gun went off in the thicket, and the charge flew past him very near his head. Supposing it to be from a hunter, Mr. D. changed his location some twenty rods or more to another part of the field, and went on with his work. Soon another gun was fired in the woods, and he was hit in the neck by a bullet which passed through the aesophagus, cutting it nearly off, and passing very near the jugular vein, it lodged in the right shoulder. Mr. DeForest was immediately attended by Dr. Halsey of Unadilla, who cut the bullet from the shoulder, and is doing all he can for the sufferer, though with but little prospect of saving his life. The shots were made by Gilbert ROGERS, who says he was shooting squirrels and birds. There has been some difficulty between these parties, and the case requires a searching investigation. We learn that Rogers has been arrested, and was to be examined at Unadilla yesterday, but we are not advised of the result. Altogether this is a very strange affair.
  8/14/1867
  OTSEGO COUNTY ITEMS. John DeFOREST, of Unadilla, who ws shot in the singular way we announced last week, died of his wound on Wednesday last. Gilbert ROGERS who fired the fatal shot was arrested and after as full an examination as could be made in the case was discharged, there being no proof of guilty intent on his part.
  6/16/1869 UNADILLA.
  Gilbert ROGERS, of Unadilla, indicted for the murder of John DeFOREST, in 1867, was acquitted by direction of the court, on Thursday last.

Details of John's family with Mary Jane Fisk