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The West Somerset Free Press, and Williton, Minehead, and Watchet Journal. Saturday 22 Aug 1885
Page 5 Column 2
CREECH ST. MICHAEL.
INQUEST. - On Monday, the coroner for the division, Mr. W. W. MUNCKTON, held an inquest at Creech St. Michael on the body of George SHEPPARD, aged 35, labourer, who died suddenly on Friday night. The deceased's wife said she went to work on Friday morning, leaving her husband in bed. When she returned in the evening she found him sitting on a chair by the fire quite dead. Dr. PAULIN said the deceased died from heart disease, and the jury found a verdict to the effect that he died by the visitation of God.