The people of this section has received a sad shock from the sudden death on April 5, 1898, of one of our most respected citizens, Bert Pierson.

Mr. Pierson took a pleasure trip to Wall Lake one day last week and there spent several days hunting. On Saturday, while cleaning his gun, he accidentally shot himself in the leg. He lost so much blood before a physician could be called that when medical aid did arrive an operation could not be performed. He never rallied from the first shock and this followed by gangrene caused his death. Dr. R. R. Williams of this city was called to Lake View and did all that medical skill could do to save his patient but death came on Tuesday, April 5. The body was brought home and funeral services, conducted by Rev. G.W. Wood, were held Wednesday at the home of Mr. Swearingen a few miles north of town after which the remains were laid in their final resting place in the Iowa Township Cemetery west of Aspinwall.
Mr. Pierson was a quiet, unassuming man, honest and upright in his business dealings. He leaves a large number of friends who sympathize with his wife and little son in their unexpected sorrow.

Albert B. Pierson was born in Illinois on October 15, 1862. At the age of five he with his parents, moved to Clark county Iowa. In 1882, he came to Carroll County, and on March 29, 1885 he was united with Miss Orinda Swearingen. The union was blest with two children one of whom is now living-a little son ten years of age.

Another Hunting Accident
Manning, Iowa, April, 6
Bert Pierson who lives a few miles north of Manning was injured probably fatally while hunting Saturday at Lake View. While cleaning his gun after being in the water, it was accidentally discharged, the shot nearly all lodging in the knee. The wound bled so profusely before medical assistance reached him that it was found impossible to make an operation. The doctor says he cannot live.
Muscatine Journal, Muscatine, Iowa April 7, 1898

About the life of Albert Pierson we know but little. He is a man of 36 years of age, owns a fine farm four miles east of Manning on which he lived happily with his wife and child.
He was an industrious German (very doubtful) farmer and had just cleared his farm from debt and thought he could afford to take a pleasure hunt at Lake View.
But alas it was a most unfortunate hunt.
The remains, all that was mortal of Albert Pierson, in a beautiful casket furnished by A.E. Forsyth, undertaker, left Lake View for Manning on the Tuesday noon train with sorrowing friends. Lake View regrets the unfortunate event and sympathizes with the sorrowing ones.