TEELING, Edward died 1876

TEELING

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 10/13/2023 at 19:37:02

Last Saturday evening about 4 o'clock, while on his way home, Mr. Edward Teeling, of French Creek township, met with an accident which resulted almost instantly in his death.

He was in town on that day and started to ride out home with Mr. James Tully, of the same township. Mr. T. had on his wagon about 1200 pounds of mill feed. In going down the ravine about 1 1/2 miles below Chris. Reiser's place, the wagon slid off from the road into a deep gully which Mr. Tully was trying hard to avoid, and upset, dragging team and all over with it.

Mr. Teeling was thrown off over against the opposite bank, and the wagon and load fell immediately against him with such weight as to make it impossible for him to move. Mr. Tully went at once to his assistance but it was impossible for him to extricate him before life was extinct.

Teeling spoke but once after he fell, calling to Tully to come and help him out. He expired in a few seconds. The team was plunging and struggling to get up but could not, and Mr. Tully was powerless to free them, so he left them and started off to get assistance, which he found in the course of fifteen or twenty minutes, and returned to the place of the accident.

They extracted the lifeless remains of Mr. Teeling, cut the harness from the horses and got them out as soon as they could and sent at once for another team to take the corpse home.

The unfortunate man was about 40 years old, and leaves behind him a wife and six children, the oldest a boy but 12 years of age. He was a poor, honest, hard working Irishman, who was striving hard to get ahead a little in life, but leaves his family penniless.

For years he has been honored by his neighbors, by whom he was greatly respected, with several township offices of trust, which he filled with the utmost fidelity and integrity. It is indeed a sad, untimely death, and is but a [illegible] of the uncertainty of human life.

~North Iowa Journal, Wednesday, February 16, 1876; pg 3

Note: burial is in St. Mary's, Lycurgus