He looks like an old softie. ;’)
He actually was. He was hit by a car in 1920 and killed at the age of 80. By the time that I was born, Grandma still would cry about losing her Grandpa. I found his death ironic. During the Civil War, he was shot in the head and lost sight and hearing on that side.....the same side that was struck by the car. He never saw or heard the car coming.