CORBITT, Lizzie C. and Alfred E., and MOUNT, John

CORBITT, LONG, MOUNT

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/8/2006 at 14:11:36

From the Prill transcriptions; source not cited but most likely one of the Fairfield newspapers. The accident resulting in the death of the CORBITT children occurred Aug. 20, 1868. See a posting on the Jefferson County Documents board titled "Dreadful Railroad Accident" which was posted July 5, 2006.

A TRIPLE FUNERAL: Never before, we believe, have our citizens been called to witness a triple funeral in Fairfield, until last Friday. Mrs. LONG's two children -- Lizzie C. and Alfred E. CORBITT -- and little John MOUNT, were all conveyed to the Methodist Church at 4 o'clock P.M. on the 21st inst., and placed side by side. The same funeral discourse was preached over the corpses of the three children, all of them killed by accident, and they were all conveyed to the same grave yard in the same procession. Lizzie and Alfred were buried in the same grave, and Johnny's body found a resting place only a few steps from them. .... Rev. Shippen.... affecting sermon.

~~ Transcriber's note: Johnny MOUNT (born in 1853) died after being kicked by a horse west of town. He was the son of Jedediah MOUNT. A short paragraph regarding this incident appears above the burial announcement of the CORBITT children in a Fairfield newspaper. Thanks to the helpful and knowledgeable Verda Baird of Fairfield, we learn that Jedediah MOUNT bought six lots in Evergreen Cemetery on Oct. 5, 1875, and had Johnny's remains moved there from the Old Fairfield Cemetery. The MOUNTs interred on these six lots have no gravestones. Buried there are George (no dates), Willie (no dates), Johnnie (1853-1868), Mary (first wife of Jedediah, died 1869), Margaret (second wife of Jedediah, died 1879), and Jedediah himself (1810-1902).~~

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