Hezekiah Springer “Babe” Croghan 1878 - 1901

CROGHAN, EDDY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/14/2022 at 22:19:56

Hezekiah Springer “Babe” Croghan

Death Follows Wedding
Special to Times-Republican
Sioux City, Jan. 21—There is grief and sorrow in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rhodes, which but a few days ago was bright with thee lights and merry with the noise of a wedding celebration, when Miss Eva May Eddy was united in marriage to Hezekiah S. Croghan, a prosperous young farmer. Three days after the jollification Mr. Croghan, was dead, being caught in the machinery of a corn sheller and whirled around and around, striking his head and crushing the skull.

Funeral Follows A Wedding
Rock Township Man Is Killed Shortly After Taking a Wife
Correctionville News: “Sunday morning, January 6, 1901, Hesekiah S. Croghan and Eva May Eddy were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rhodes, who live in the southwest corner of Rock Township.”

This was the notice handed to the News just too late for insertion in last week’s paper. The paper had scarcely been printed when word was brought to town that Mr. Croghan had met a sudden death while working about a horse-power. A knuckle on the tumbling rod of the power to Mr. Croghan’s corn sheller was defective, a bolt projecting a little and making a dangerous trap. Mr. Croghan recognized this, and only a day or two before had asked a neighbor to stop and get him a new one while in town and then changed his mind and said that as he was going in a few days himself he would get it then. This delay cost him his life. While working near the dangerous knuckle Mr. Croghan’s overcoat caught on the projecting bolt and he was thrown around the rod. As he struck the ground the top of his head was crushed in. Death was instantaneous.