SNODGRASS child

SNODGRASS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/13/2006 at 20:41:32

"Fairfield Ledger", June 20, 1872, Pg. 3, Col. 1

FATAL ACCIDENT. On last Friday afternoon the wife of Mr. J. C. SNODGRASS, of our city, was going from Kirksville, Mo., to Milan in a hack, accompanied by her two children. When 15 miles from Kirksville, the oldest of her children, aged nearly four years, was thrown out by a sudden jolt of the hack and run over and so injured that he lived but an hour and a half. The grief-stricken parents reached home with the body on Sunday morning and a large number attended the funeral in the afternoon....

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