HERON, Charles John, died 1867

HERON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/2/2006 at 13:38:14

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, July 25, 1867
Page 3, Column 2

SAD ACCIDENT. It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr. John HERON, by being run over and crushed by the cars of the B. & M. R.R., on Saturday night last. The body was not discovered until Sunday morning, and was so horribly mangled as to be scarcely recognized. It is supposed that both the night and early morning trains passed over his body. An inquest was holden on the body on Sunday morning, by which we ascertain that it was lying on the railroad nearly one mile west of the Depot.... The body was given to his relatives on Sunday and was interred in the grave-yard at this place the same afternoon. Mr. HERON was a man of fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and several grown children. He was part owner of the "West Coal Banks", and was doing a good business. He had long resided in the county, and was esteemed an honorable and reliable man....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.