San Luis Obispo  County Obituaries

DR. N. W. SHAREG 

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler, Sept. 2004.

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Source:  History of San Luis Obispo County, California, Oakland, Calif., 
Thompson & West, 1883, pp 381-385

died in San Luis Obispo, August 1, 1876, in his twenty-fourth year.  
Death to most people, even in its calmest and most peaceful aspects, is 
ghastly and awfully impressive.  But when it comes sudden and unexpectedly, 
cutting down its victim in the morn of life without premonition or foreknowledge 
of his doom, it strikes a double terror, creates a deeper horror than it 
otherwise would.  N. W. Shareg, dentist, was working in his laboratory when a 
spirit lamp exploded, covering him with liquid, burning alcohol.  He was taken 
home as soon as he safely could be, where he lingered in great agony until the 
following day when his tortured soul was released from its earthly tenement and 
went to its eternal home.