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Remembering More than 260 Casualties of Water, Fire/Shock & Motor Vehicle/Aircraft Accidents |
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In reading thousands of newspaper obituaries over the years, it's been deeply troubling to learn that many hundreds of cousins have lost their lives as casualties of water, fire/electrical shock and motor vehicle accidents. These have ranged from drownings and scaldings to fires, explosions and automobile and motorcycle collisions. So that their lives are never forgotten, this page is dedicated to their memory, to the flame of each life snuffed out far too soon. |
| ~ Drownings and Scaldings (Chronological Order) ~ |
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Circumstance |
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Horse stumbled and fell while fording the Jackson River at Covington, VA during the Civil War
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Dec. 20, 1863 | ||||
Jacob C. Franks - family of Catharine (Weyand) Frank
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Swimming in the James River in Richmond, VA during the Civil War
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May 20, 1864 | |||
Charles N. Sturtz - family of Charles Sturtz
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Fishing on a seine near the mouth of Wills Creek along the Muskingum River, OH.
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June 1873 | |||
John Rochty and daughter Bernice Rochty
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Boat sank while crossing the Maumee River near Overty Island, Grand Rapids, OH
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April 2, 1878 | |||
Boat outing near Lakeside Hotel, Buckeye Lake, OH
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Nov. 30, 1884 | ||||
| Firman E. Sturtz - family of Solomon Sturtz |
After a heavy deluge of rains, was trying to move cattle off the bottom of where the Rock River had overflowed its banks at Rock Valley, IA. |
May 18, 1892 | |||
Anna Beaver - family of Anna (Boyd) Sears
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Tipped a pan full of scalding water onto herself at home in Greenfield, IN.
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June 12, 1902 | |||
Ralph Boyd Beaver - family of Anna (Boyd) Sears
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Pulled a pail of boiling water on himself at his residence in Greenfield, IN.
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Aug. 5, 1902 | |||
Harry Overfield - family of John F. Overfield
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Fell off a steamboat a quarter mile below the Maidsville landing on the Monongahela River near Morgantown, WV.
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Sept. 3, 1903 | |||
Rosa Glessner - family of Catherine Ann "Caty" (Comp) Sarver |
Fell down a hill at the edge of her yard and drowned in a small stream, only about 6 inches deep, in North Versailles near Pittsburgh. |
March 13, 1911 | |||
Swimming in the Helen Works reservoir near Smock, PA.
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Aug. 9, 1911 | ||||
Matthias Pauley - family of Hannah (Friedrich) Pauly
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Swept over the Klapperthal dam while fishing on the Schuylkill River, Berks County, PA.
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May 3, 1913 | |||
John A. Williams - family of Emma (Inks) Williams
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Swimming in the Helen Works reservoir near Smock, PA.
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June 6, 1914 | |||
James R. Minor - family of Joseph Minor
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Dove off a boat in Maple Swamp in Buckeye Lake, OH.
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July 23, 1915 | |||
Homer Pringle - family of Bertha (Minerd) Pringle
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German Township, Fayette County, PA - details lost
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July 7, 1917 | |||
Edward Aaron Whitton - family of Drusilla (Welker) Moffitt
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Cramped while swimming in Twin Lakes near Paris, IL
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May 1921 | |||
Roscoe Quinlan France - family of Forest Fay France
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Powell Creek near Continental, OH.
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May 1922 | |||
Harry Rebock Hiles - family of Daisy (Minerd) Hiles
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Homemade raft collapsed in the Hope Works reservoir near Smithfield, PA.
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April 5, 1928 | |||
Cramped while swimming in Mosquito Creek at Youngstown Road Bridge near Warren, OH.
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July 4, 1935 | ||||
Robert Mayle/Maylee and Glenn Mayle/Maylee - family of Hiram Mayle
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Automobile crashed over an embankment and into Elk Creek at Nutterdale, WV.
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Jan. 16, 1937 | |||
Charles P. Turner - family of John Perry Turner
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Fell off a sand barge in the Chesapeake Bay at Still Pond, MD.
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July 2, 1937 | |||
| Robert Glenn Stocking - family of Margaret Catherine "Maggie" (Miner) White Ramsell | While in a boat with two older brothers, on Lake Emerald near Grand Rapids, the 5-year-old boy drowned when the boat capsized in deep water. | Aug. 6, 1937 | |||
Charles Emmett Harbaugh - family of Winfield Scott Harbaugh
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Wading in North Park Lake near Pittsburgh.
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Aug. 14, 1938 | |||
Gerald Marvin Rankin - family of Flora Belle (Farabee) Miller
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Wading in Ten Mile Creek, Morgan Township., Greene County, PA.
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June 26, 1941 | |||
George Perry Potter II - family of Mary (Leonard) Potter
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Swimming in Van Buren Lake south of Rudolph, OH.
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June 1944 | |||
Luther Mayle - family of Frank Mayle
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Swimming in the Tygart Valley River near Philippi, WV.
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June 15, 1944 | |||
Charles Robert Driscoll - family of Mary Belle (Minerd) Riley
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Jumped off Pier 5, Youghiogheny Dam near Confluence, PA.
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Aug. 16, 1948 | |||
Lester Virgil Miner Sr. - family of William Thomas Minard |
While in a rowboat on Lake Erie near Conneaut, OH, jumped overboard to retrieve a comic book. He slipped below the waterline and disappeared. |
July 18, 1951 | |||
Thomas White Whyel - family of Bertha (Ingles) Stone
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Slipped and fell into the Uniontown (PA) Country Club swimming pool.
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June 28, 1952 | |||
Osmond Lee “Butch” Davis - family of Laura (Brown) Barnum
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Swimming in a farm water tank in Maysville, OK.
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June 9, 1954 | |||
Ephraim “Leroy” Minor - family of John Andrew Miner
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Tangled in weeds while wimming in Lime Kiln Lake at Zoar near Mineral City, OH.
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Sept. 11, 1961 | |||
Wendell Hall - family of Jay Orlando Blythe |
While at work for the Zeller Corporation in Defiance, OH, fell into a solution of scalding soap. |
Oct. 21, 1962 | |||
Walter Kenneth Ayers - family of Susan (Dillow) West |
Was boating on a lake near Jerseyville, IL when the boat struck a log and capsized. |
Aug. 3, 1963 | |||
Jack Hayden Coffey - family of Mary Catherine "Mollie" (McKnight) Pratton
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Homemade canoe overturned in the Allegheny River at the mouth of Cowanshannock Creek, 2 miles from Kittanning, PA.
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Nov. 11, 1964 | |||
Harry “J.D.” Murray - family of Harriet (Younkin) Romesburg
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High Point Lake, Somerset County, PA.
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July 9, 1966 | |||
Duane Douglas Imler - family of Sarah (Comp) Lepley |
While swimming in a farm pond near Kennells Mill, PA |
June 16, 1968 | |||
Donald Walker - family of Mary (Mayle) Croston Hunter
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Canoe overturned in Clendening Lake at YMCA Camp, Tippecanoe, OH.
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Oct. 23, 1968 | |||
Wade Sheets - family of Lewis Musser
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Lake Michigan near Ludington, MI.
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Aug. 1, 1970 | |||
David Fabian - family of Charles H. Rose
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New Year’s ritual swim in the Youghiogheny River at Connellsville, PA.
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Jan. 1, 1971 | |||
Charles R. Conley Sr. - family of Austin Coleman Van Horn |
Drowned in a small family pond near Akron, OH, while fishing, possibly from an epileptic seizure. |
May 27, 1974 | |||
Hazel I. (Halfpenny) Stephenson - family of Ira M. Halfpenny |
Found dead on the Susquehanna River bank near Berwick, PA, having been missing for 10 days. She reputedly was despondent just before leaving home. |
March 1977 | |||
Richard Lee Ayers - family of Susan (Dillow) West |
Sank while swimming in the Rickgauer Sand and Gravel pit near Kenney, IL |
May 17, 1977 | |||
Harold Douglas Pirl - family of Charles H. Rose
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Indian Creek near Normalville, PA.
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May 11, 1977 | |||
Dillon Kenneth Knight - family of Norman W. Knight
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Fell through ice while playing on Wixom Lake near Gladwin, MI.
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Feb. 14, 1987 | |||
Thomas Keally Flaherty - family of Cora Isabelle (Evans Burns) Phelan
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Allegheny River at the Highland Park Dam near Pittsburgh.
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May 1989 | |||
Diane M. Hasch - family of Emma (Minerd) Green |
Jumped from the Donora-Monessen Bridge into the Monongahela River at Donora, PA. |
Feb. 13, 1990 | |||
Wayne R. Heinbaugh - family of Missouri (Younkin) Wingerd
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Swimming in hotel pool in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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May 27, 2005 | |||
Kenneth Varnadore - family of Wilbert Regis "Patsy" Minerd Sr.
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Motorboating in Lake Wylie near Charlotte, NC.
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July 6, 2016 |
| ~ Fire, Explosions, Electrical Shock (Chronological Order) ~ |
Name (31) |
Circumstance |
Date | |||
Baby said to have been dropped from his mother's arms into a burning fireplace when she suffered an epileptic fit, likely near Kingwood, PA. |
1840s-1850s | ||||
Benjamin Franklin Troutman - family of Catherine (Emerick) Troutman |
The infant's clothing caught fire " from the cooking stove, and before the fire could be extinguished, the child was so badly burned, that he died on Saturday evening following" in Londonderry Township, said the Bedford (PA) Inquirer. |
Oct. 19, 1859 | |||
Dress ignited while burning wood to heat water for carpet-cleaning in Weldon, IL. |
May 11, 1883 | ||||
Ida M. (Snow) Van Horn - family of Andrew Jackson Van Horn |
Burned in a fire at home in Robinson, IL. |
Dec. 12, 1906 | |||
Legs badly burned when his clothing caught fire; died a little more than a week later in Grand Rapids, OH.
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March 8, 1922 | ||||
Caught in a gasoline explosion at the Freedom Oil Company in Mt. Pleasant, PA. |
March 1924 | ||||
Fred A. Johnson and son Darald Gene Johnson - family of Charles A. Dillow |
Clothes caught fire while refilling a lighted coal oil lamp at home 7 miles south of Kenney, IL. |
Nov. 7, 1926 | |||
Dress caught fire while working at a cook stove at home in Belle Vernon, PA |
Jan. 1927 | ||||
Gasoline tank explosion at a small electric power plant in Scullton, PA
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July 20, 1931 | ||||
Fire in an improvised boxcar shanty on a siding of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad in Newell, PA |
March 1934 | ||||
Fannie (McLaughlin) Dean - family of Catherine (Minerd) Nesmith Dean |
Can of polish exploded while she was cleaning a hot stove in the family kitchen in Uniontown, PA |
Dec. 2, 1935 | |||
While repairing a transformer at West Penn Power in Connellsville, PA, came into contact with a live wire and was set afire. |
Feb. 2, 1936 | ||||
Levi Franklin "Frank" Emerick - family of Lafayette Emerick |
While in his blacksmith shop, dropped a piece of red-hot on some leaves, which ignited and spread to a nearby barn. Was burned on the face, skull and hands while trying to save a horse trapped inside the burning barn. |
April 11, 1945 | |||
Ralph Robert Sheely - family of Stanford E. Oberdorf |
When trying to light a fire, a 5-gallon can of kerosene ignited and exploded, sending flames into the living room, kitchen and small room. |
Oct. 16, 1949 | |||
Housefire after a kerosene stove exploded in his home south of Tuscarawas, OH |
Feb. 16, 1950 | ||||
Barbara Mae "Bobbi" Hice - family of Minnie May (Ogle) Halfhill |
While playing at home with a candle, her dress ignited, with the fire burning over 80 percent of her body. |
April 22, 1953 | |||
| Dorothy (Bailey) Cox - family of Viola (Miner) Cox | Collapsed from smoke inhallation while trying to leave her apartment in New Castle, PA after a day bed mattress on the sun porch accidentally caught fire. | Oct. 22, 1957 | |||
Housefire blamed on a cast iron space heater in Connellsville, PA |
Dec. 3, 1961 | ||||
Peggy Sue (Richey) Bierer and children Lori Ann and John David - family of Jesse "Bruce" Nicklow |
Overcome by fumes, smoke and burns when a small fire in their sofa spread to the walls of their living room in Connellsville, PA. |
Jan. 26, 1968 | |||
Robert D. Cypher - family of Jesse "Bruce" Nicklow |
While working at Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. in Los Angeles, and adjusting a kiln, his shirt caught fire, rendering burns of the chest and arms. |
April 1968 | |||
Housefire in the home of her brother Osborne Ream in Draketown, PA – investigated by the FBI |
Sept. 1, 1970 | ||||
| Mary Louise (Giles) Means and son Larry Duane - family of Lucinda Jane "Jennie" (Miner) Turner Stevenson Paolone | Fire swept through their home in Elizabeth, NJ | March 26, 1974 |
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| Thomas R. Darrell - family of Jesse "Bruce" Nicklow | Struck by lightning while walking with friends in St. Rita's Cemetery in Connellsville, PA | June 11, 1976 |
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| Edison Arthur "Eddie" Ware Jr. - family of Daniel Foster Sarver | Electrocuted while cleaning an electrical transformer at work for J.E. Baker Company of York, PA | June 25, 1980 |
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| Ward W. Friend Jr. - family of Dianna (Nicklow) Shipley | Found dead behind the wheel of his car after a fire in the garage of his home in Lemont Furnace, PA. | Feb. 24, 1983 | |||
| Richard Lee Ross - family of Mary (Mayle) Croston Hunter | Housefire, possibly in Canton, OH. | Sept. 13, 1995 |
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| Debra June Gardner - family of Katharyn (Purinton) Haller Tower | Housefire in Bowie, MD. Her elderly father was rescued without injury. | Oct. 27, 2000 |
| ~ Automobile, Motorcycle, Aircraft and Pedestrian Accidents ~ (Chronological Order) |
Name (200) |
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Death Date |
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| Herbert Clark - family of Lucy (Minard) Clark | While circling the public square of Mt. Vernon, OH on his motorcycle, between the rails of a streetcar track, his wheels hit the track switch, throwing him to the pavement. | Fall 1912 |
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George Francis Beltz - family of Matilda (Comp) Beltz |
Traveling between Enon Valley and Petersburg, PA, was thrown from a moving automobile. | July 19, 1913 |
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| Floyd Scott White - family of Margaret Catherine "Maggie" (Miner) White Ramsell | Badly injured in an auto accident on Gull Road, Kalamazoo, MI, with shock and internal injuries. Died the next day. | Sept. 16, 1917 | |||
| Julia A. Frank - family of Catherine (Weyand) Frank | While Christmas shopping in Bloomington, IL, crossed the street at Main and Washington, was struck and knocked down by a motorist, and hit her head on the pavement. | Dec. 1917 |
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| Caroline Jane "Carrie" (Dillow) Houchins - family of Charles A. Dillow | Her Ford automobile was struck by an interurban trolley near the Clinton (IL) Country Club. | Oct. 1, 1921 |
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| Raymond W. Lame - family of Minerva Jane "Jennie" (Miner) Lame | Automobile accident in or near Spencer Township, Ralls County, MO | Aug. 29, 1925 |
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| Kyle Carles Callen - family of Sabina "Lucretia" (Van Horn) Callan | While repairing a wheel on his automobile, the jack collapsed, with the car plunging down and crushing him to death at home in Marion, VA. | Sept. 1, 1927 |
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| Charles "Silas" and Rachel (Pritchard Dublin) Miner |
As passengers in a car driven by their son, the vehicle skidded while trying to pass another around a sharp curve, plunging down a steep embankment. | Dec. 24, 1927 |
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| William L. Willis - family of Charles Addison Dillow | He and his elderly parents and sons were riding in a Chrysler 80 sedan on the Old National Trail, 10 miles east of Vandalia, IL, when the car flipped three times and ejected all the occupants. | Sept. 8, 1929 |
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| Arthur Minerd - family of James William Minerd | Unexpectedly cut across a road while bicycling with friends in Warren, OH and was struck by an automobile, thrown a distance and hit his head on a curb. | Oct. 9, 1929 |
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| Albert Thomas Stone - family of Bertha (Ingles) Stone | While riding with his uncle James F. Stone, the vehicle went off the road and wrecked over a dry gully near Silver City, NM. | March 14, 1930 |
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Evelyn Ullery - family of Gertrude (Minerd) Ullery |
Struck and killed by a moving automobile near Pennsville, PA | May 1930 |
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| Hazel G. (Heston) Gribble Slusher Smith - family of Eugenus C. Gribble | Her car turned over while on a curve at high speed near Harrisburg, OH | July 29, 1930 |
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| Lafayette Burns - family of Charles A. Dillow | South of Clinton, IL, was thrown from a lumber wagon when it was struck by a car attempting to pass on the Salt Creek hill. | Sept. 17, 1930 |
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| Ora C. Emrick - family of Josiah Emerick | En route to a vacation in Iowa, upon his motorcycle, lost control on a freshly graveled patch of highway and was thrown to the pavement at Grand Mound near Clinton, IA. | Sept. 22, 1930 |
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| Albert Doyle Nabors Jr. - family of Pearl (Beggs) Nabors Altman | Struck by a car and killed while playing in front of the home of a family about to adopt him. Maybe in Uniontown? Check death certs. | 1932 |
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| Bernard Bryant Broadwater - family of Sarah (Comp) Lepley | His vehicle collided with a truck at the corner of Fulton and Main Streets in Warren, OH | Feb. 7, 1932 |
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| John Willis Krick |
Vehicle upset and went off the road, plunging over a 10-foot embankment into the Auglaize River near Paulding, OH. | Aug. 30, 1932 |
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| Daniel Mayle - family of Inez Gertrude (Hayes) Crippen | Vehicle failed to navigate a turn in Bern Township, Athens County, OH | Sept. 15, 1932 |
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| Daniel Shupe - family of Rachel Ruamy (Murray) Cole | While driving on Route 119 near Poplar Grove, Connellsville, PA, his automobile collided with another. The force of the crash smashed the left front wheel and tore the top from the couple. The driver was thrown from the vehicle. | March 30, 1935 |
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| William Rose - family of Levi Rose | After being dropped off at home along Route 281, near Kingwood, PA, was struck and killed by another vehicle. | March 8, 1936 |
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| James Austin Harbaugh - family of James Harbaugh | Struck by a motorcyclist on the Connellsville-Farmington Highway in Fayette County, PA. His body was found quite a distance away, hinting to authorities that the hit-and-run driver carried the corpse to a spot where he knew it would be found, about 100 feet from a farmhouse. | Nov. 1936 |
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| LaVerne Maude (Knight) McMillan - family of Mary Ann (Ream) McMillan | While returning from the Christmas party of her husband's sporting goods firm, as a passenger in a vehicle driven by the Terre Haute (IN) Star sports editor, her skull was crushed when the automobile ran off a curving road, plowed into an abutment and overturned. | Dec. 23, 1937 |
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| Harold Dwight Harbaugh | Hit by a passing vehicle while he tried to walk across Route 40 (the National Pike) at Hopwood, PA. Weighing . 240 lbs., he was knocked about 60 feet to the sidewalk | Jan. 6, 1938 |
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| Anna Alice (Kistler) Peters - family of William Gaumer |
An automobile skidded on the ice and crashed into their home near Allentown, PA, knocking down the posts holding up the front porch. She came out to the porch to watch her husband and others pull the vehicle out of the wreckage. Without warning, the porch roof collapsed and buried her in the debris. | Feb. 4, 1938 |
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| James Henry Braunns, also spelled "Brauns" - family of Alice (Minerd) Holdsworth | Vehicle collided head-on with another on Altman Avenue in Punxsutawney, PA. | Aug. 15, 1938 |
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| Richard "Curtis" Mull - family of Josiah Emerick | Killed on U.S. Route 30, near Ligonier, PA, when his vehicle crashed into the back of a large tractor trailer hauling a large steam shovel. | May 4, 1940 |
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| Jack B. "Jackie" Slonecker - family of Josiah Emerick | A 9-year-old boy, was run over by a truck in Mount Pleasant, PA, falling under the right real wheel while trying to hang onto the side of the truck. | Sept. 21, 1940 |
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Noel J. Dawkins - family of Dora (Miner) Dawkins |
Vehicle failed to make a curve on Route 128 south of Cowden, IL. | April 1941 |
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| Hugh W. “Huey” Firestone - family of Grant Louis Firestone Sr. | Automobile accident in Wyandotte, MI | May 11, 1941 |
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| Lloyd Ellsworth Hayes - family of Mary Jane (Firestone) Sidebottom | While standing along Route 3 west of Greensburg, PA, was struck by a moving automobile. | Aug. 24, 1941 |
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| Nellie (Knight) Ambler and Mildred Marie (Hagen) Ambler | Mildred was killed on Memorial Day 1941, crushed when her vehicle overturned at a rural road intersection south of Hutchinson, KS, while Nellie was critically injured and died June 2, 1942. | May 30, 1952 | |||
| David Mansfield “Mose” Newman - family of Sarepta (Kennedy) Mayle |
Struck by a moving automobile in Barbour County, WV. | June 23, 1942 |
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| Ruby (Comp) Smith Rush - family of Hannah (Sturtz) Comp | After surviving a motor vehicle accident on Route 51 near Uniontown, PA, she walked a mile for help only to be struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. | Dec. 13, 1942 |
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Harry Arnold "Schuf" Overholt - family of Arnold A. Overholt |
On wet pavement, as the car reached Jones Mills, PA on Route 31, it skidded and rolled over an embankment | 1943 |
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His car collided a coal truck collided at the Gaddis intersection on the Connellsville road in Fayette County, PA. The wreck was buried under 8 tons of coal and debris. |
March 23, 1944 |
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| Calvin Burr III - family of Mabel Elise (Hayden) Burr |
Automobile accident a few miles east of Auburn, NY | Dec. 6, 1946 |
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| Frank George Turner |
Passenger in an automobile which collided with a truck on U.S. Route 40 near Flint Rock Park, east of Uniontown, PA | Dec. 23, 1946 |
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| Robert McKnight - family of Minnie (Minerd) McKnight |
Struck by a moving vehicle on Main Street in Uniontown, PA. | Jan. 13, 1947 |
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| Philip D. Krick |
Automobile accident in Saginaw County, MI | Oct. 15, 1947 |
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| Robert Minor - family of Jacob Alexander Minor | With a friend, was en route to Michigan to look for work. When he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car, his vehicle went off the road and overturned several times near New London, OH. | Dec. 1947 |
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| Roy Edward Kennell - family of Sarah (Comp) Lepley | After getting out of a truck driven by a cousin, near Wellersburg, PA, fell under the wheels as the vehicle began to move away. | May 13, 1948 |
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| Twila Nellie Miner - family of Robert Marshall White Sr. | While bicycling along Route 40 in Hopwood, PA, was struck by a motorist when she rode out from between parked cars. | Nov. 10, 1948 |
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| Harry "Clayton" Rowe - family of Josiah Emerick | While driving with cousin Francis Fawl about six miles north of Ottawa, KS on U.S. Route 59, their vehicle collided with an empty gasoline transport truck. | June 10, 1950 |
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| Elmer Frank Henning - family of Homer W. Turner | A pedestrian, was struck by a tractor trailer just after midnight on April 18, 1951, at the intersection of Pennel and Second Streets in Chester, PA. | April 18, 1951 | |||
| Alma Elizabeth (Emerick) Burkett - family of Sarah (Comp) Lepley | Passenger in an automobile which "went out of control and plunged into a ditch" 3 miles east of Inola, OK on State Highway 33, after being sideswiped by a 19-year-old driver. | July 15, 1951 | |||
| Forest Fay France | Two-car collision on Route 108, five miles south of Holgate, OH | April 1952 |
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| Arthur Ralph “Buck” Minerd Sr. and nephew William Minerd of the family of Harry Russell Minerd |
En route to work, their car collided head-on with a coal truck on Route 88 at the outskirts of Greensboro, PA | May 27, 1952 |
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| Walter Abram and Harriet Glen (Reddy) Freed |
Skidded on a wet road in Winter Haven, FL, crushing the vehicle, just after leaving a Shriner convention | June 20, 1952 |
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| David Edward Miner - family of William G. Miner |
Near the entrance to the state hospital on Route 36 in Altoona, PA, struck a berm along a durve and skidded sideways before a collision with another auto, just days before he was to be inducted into the Army during the Korean War. | 1952 |
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| Orlie James Stocking - family of Margaret Catherine "Maggie" (Miner) White Ramsell | After his car struck the rear right bumper of another, on Route M-53 north of Marlette, MI, it ran off the road and into a ditch, he was ejected, and the car rolled on top of him. | March 6, 1953 | |||
| John Harvey Mayle - family of Sarepta (Kennedy) Mayle | While en route with a friend from an outing in the mountains, their pickup truck skidded on wet street pavement and overturned near Elkins, WV | April 25, 1953 |
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Odell Francis - family of Minnie May (Ogle) Halfhill |
Was struck and killed by an automobile while directing traffic on Route 171 near Cleburne, TX, during an Air Force convoy of heavy equipment on a mercy mission to tornado-stricken Waco. |
May 12, 1953 | |||
| Albert "Dutch" Richter Sr. - family of Harriet Ann (Nicklow) Prinkey | Was walking on York Avenue near his home in Connellsville, PA when struck by a moving automobile. | July 16, 1953 | |||
| John Henry Moon - family of Enoch Miner Sr. | After a night of drinking and bar hopping, was a passenger in a vehicle which rammed into the back of a stalled truck on Route 119 near Gaddis Crossroads, Uniontown, PA | Aug. 29, 1953 |
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| David "Alfred" and Lissie (Russell) Dillow and their daughter Tina Venita (Dillow) Jackson | As passengers in a car driven by a nephew en route to a family gathering in Tacoma, WA, the vehicle collided head-on with another on the Mt. Rainier Highway at Spanaway, at the intersection of 145th and Pacific Avenue. | Oct. 3, 1953 |
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| James Clifford Kennell - family of Solomon Emerick | Two miles south of Hyndman, PA, he "applied the brakes on his car as he approached a slower moving vehicle, which was traveling in the same direction," said a newspaper. His car went out of control and sideswiped a southbound car." His door broke open on impact and he may have been "thrown out and suffered fatal injuries when he fell on the road." |
Jan. 24, 1954 |
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| Raymond Charles "Dutch" Furman - family of Marcellus Murray | While walking along U.S. Route 40 near Uniontown, PA, stepped into the path of a trailer truck which left the scene in a hit-and-run. | April 25, 1954 |
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| Ivo "Dale" Miner - family of Hugh Valentine Miner | En route to work, the automobile skidded off the road and flipped over an embankment into a ditch along Roiute 34 in Hillsdale, MI. | Jan. 1955 |
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| Charles William Phillips - family of Arlene Grace (Menefee) Stuck | Critically injured in the chest in an automobile accident on Route 92 near Grafton, WV, and died in Grafton City Hospital. | Oct. 27, 1956 |
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| Edward Lewis and Phyllis Margaret (Miller) Youngblood - family of John W. Miller | Crashed head-on into a concrete abutment over a small bridge on Oldtown Road, 10 miles southeast of Cumberland, MD. | Feb. 10, 1957 |
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| Presley Twining France | Automobile accident. | March 23, 1957 |
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| Ervin Hartman - family of Austin "Frederick" Van Horn | Killed when his automobile collided with a tractor trialer in or around Findlay, OH. |
Dec. 9, 1957 |
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| Charles Richard "Chuck" Darrell - family of Gertrude (Minerd) Ullery | While working as a flagman along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, four miles east of the Allegheny Interchange, was struck by a motorist. | May 27, 1958 |
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| Myrtle Firestone |
On her usual rounds delivering farm goods using a horse and buggy, was riding up a hill east of St. Joseph’s Cemetery near Connellsville, PA when a pickup truck tried to pass and struck the right rear wheel of the buggy. | Sept. 1958 |
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| Thelma Jean (Stairs) Appleby - family of Clarence Garner Stairs | Automobile accident near Mulberry, FL. | Sept. 20, 1958 |
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| Edith Edna Sutton - family of Sarah Caroline (Minerd) Ayars | On a driving trip from Michigan to Illinois, she and two co-workers were killed when a freight train collided with their small foreign automobile at Hammond, IN. | Sept. 27, 1958 | |||
Alice (Carpendale) Cregger Krick - family of Elijah Krick |
Two-car collision at an intersection on the eastern outskirts of Grand Rapids, MI, near her home along Knapp Road. | March 3, 1959 |
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| Earl Elmer Van Sickle - family of Caroline (Miner) Musser | Seven miles northeast of Coldwater, MI at Bidwell and Gorbell Roads, collided with another vehicle whose driver had been unable to see Earl's approaching car. | June 14, 1959 | |||
Gilbert Van Johnson - family of Charles H. Rose |
On Route 381 in Mill Run, PA, his vehicle overturned when it struck an abutment. | Nov. 5, 1959 |
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| Paul Loren Kennell - family of Solomon Emerick | While driving on a straight stretch of road, good visibility and clear going, ascending a long gradual grade of Route 96 near Hyndman, PA, collided with on coming vehicle. Was "thrown into the back seat of his car by the force of the impact that damaged both machines beyond repair [and] was killed instantly because of internal injuries," said a newspaper. | Sept. 3, 1960 |
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| Donald Kuhns - family of Minnie (Enos) Kuhns | Accident about 16 miles northeast of Cambridge, Ohio when an oncoming car failed to negotiate a turn and went into the path of the Kuhns vehicle. | July 7, 1961 |
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| Horace O. Middlebrook - family of Mary Ann (Ream) McMillan | While driving south of Sebetha, KS, along a county road, failed to stop at a stop sign and pulled directly into the path of an oncoming car. | May 21, 1962 |
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| Beverly (Dalton) Corty - family of Sylvia (Dillow) Delamere West | Along U.S. Route 20 near Poppy Road, west of South Bend, IN, lost control along a slight grade when unable to navigate a curve to the left, with the car rolling over three times, throwing her out. | Oct. 3, 1962 |
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| Jack L. Walrath - family of Marion W. Miner | A licensed pilot of small aircraft, was flying a new plane from California to his home base in Montana when it crashed near Billings, MT. | April 1963 | |||
| Clara (Bruce) Henneman - family of Ostie (Minard) Henneman | Struck by a motorist while helping someone having car trouble on the east side of Clarinda, IA. | Aug. 1, 1963 |
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| Margaret (Emerick) Kane - family of Josiah Emerick | While working in her front yard in Cumberland, MD, was struck by a moving vehicle operated by a 16-year-old boy and thrown over the curb. | April 23, 1964 |
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| Geraldine (Gerhard) Yarbrough - family of Thomas Ream Jr. |
Three-vehicle accident along Route 32 near Muncie, IN when her car was rear-ended as she was stopped, trying to make a left turn. | Sept. 12, 1964 |
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| Dale Edward House - family of Thomas Ira Gribble | Passenger in an automobile which rolled over several times along Route 283 in or near Painesville, OH | Nov. 3, 1964 |
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| A. Dewey Porter - family of Lydia (Emerick) Beal | Struck by a passing motorist while walking to work at Frostburg (MD) State College, sustaining a crushed chest, fractures and internal injuries. | Feb. 3, 1965 |
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| William "Edward" and Bernadine Elizabeth (Savely) Willis - family of Charles Addison Dillow | Husband and wife driving together were killed in a two-vehicle, head-on collision on U.S. Route 24 west of Burnettsville, near Monticello, IN. | March 6, 1965 | |||
| Merle Robert Turney - families of Martha (Leonard) Turney and Lucinda Jane "Jennie" (Miner) Turner Stevenson Paolone | While driving on the Ohio Turnpike near Berea, was badly injured in a two-car crash and pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. | March 19, 1965 |
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| Orville Gary - family of Minnie Edna (Miner) Gary | Vehicle lost control and veered off Route 219 in Garrett, PA. | August 1965 |
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| Terry Lee Miner - family of William M. Miner | Died in an automobile accident in Michigan. | March 1966 | |||
Dennis Michael Wilscam - family of Frank Minerd |
The brakes locked with the vehicle propelled into a ditch on the Butler-Sedgwick County line near Andover, KS. | Nov. 12, 1966 |
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| Kenneth Miner - family of Charles Miner |
Believed to have been an automobile accident on U.S. Route 61, about a mile north of Montrose, IA | March 1967 |
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| James Gordon Menear - family of Ida (Gribble) Groves King | Killed in a two-car collision on U.S. Route 19 north of Gore, WV. | June 6, 1967 | |||
| Stephen Minard |
Wreck on Route 119 near Philippi, WV on after suffering a heart attack. | July 2, 1967 |
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| Terry Brown - family of Harry Minerd | Automobile accident in Anderson, CA | Nov. 1967 |
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| Beryl Eugene Kennedy - family of Ressie Ray Kennedy | Automobile accident in or near Sandusky, OH. | April 11, 1968 |
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| Haulzie "Paul" Rhodes - family of Sarah Jane (Addis) Rankin | While driving near Outcrop, PA, lost control of his truck. After an impact, was thrown from the vehicle, and suffered a fractured neck and fractures of the skull, crushed chest and internal bleeding. | Dec. 17, 1968 |
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| Linda Sue (Barron) Harshman - family of Anna Belle (Trout) Hower | While drinking and driving in a small foreign-made sportscar, the automobile lost control and struck the Perkiomen Creek Bridge on Egypt Road before smashing into a telephone pole near Oaks, PA. | March 7, 1970 |
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| Dr. Robert William Guie - family of Lydia (Emerick) Beal | His vehicle was driving at a high rate of speed along Route 711/Springfield Pike near Connellsville, PA, and cross the centerline on a curve and collided head-on with another car, with both bursting into flames. | July 29, 1970 |
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| Roy Eugene Pullin - family of Mary Ann (Ream) McMillan | His automobile skidded on an icy road near Cedar Rapids, IA and turned over. | Dec. 12, 1970 |
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Mary Hunsberger - family of Johan George Wetzel |
Head-on crash between the Route 512 and Route 191 exits of Lehigh Valley Thruway in Northampton County, PA | Feb. 1971 |
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Charles James Behler II - family of Susan (Dillow) West |
Thrown from his motorcycle in Rockford, IL while trying to avoid an oncoming automobile. |
May 24, 1971 | |||
| Lloyd Keith Dalton - family of Emily Jane (Minerd) Mayle | While stationed with the 3rd Marine Air Wing at Yuma (AZ) Air Station, was riding in a bus and pushed out the rear door by a fellow Marine and was struck by a trailing vehicle. | June 1971 |
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| Jack Phillip Ross - family of Mary (Mayle) Croston Hunter | Struck and killed by a moving automobile at the corner of Gibbs Avenue Northeast and Hiner Place in Canton, OH | Oct. 5, 1971 |
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| Anna (?) Birch - family of Andrew J. Birch | Automobile accident in Odessa, TX | 1972 |
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| Mickey Fitzgerald O'Brien - family of Dianna (Nicklow) Shipley | The 10-year-old ran in front of a moving car at North Angus Street and East Ashlan Avenue in Fresno, CA and was struck. Died after 17 months in a coma. | April 12, 1972 | |||
| Joann M. (Hainzer) Rose - family of Albert Lloyd Minerd | The motorcycle on which she was riding was struck by a moving train at a railroad crossing in Twakuni, Japan | Oct. 7, 1972 | |||
| Martin J. Walsh Jr. - family of Barbara Eleanor (Minerd) Walsh |
While driving in East Providence, PA, a large rock crashed through the vehicle's windshield. | 1973 |
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| Eric Allen Welsh - family of John W. Miner | Was a passenger in a vehicle which was crossing railroad tracks after a train had passed, only to be struck when the train stopped and backed up. | March 21, 1973 |
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| Wanda Kay Rodeheaver - family of Alfred Rankin |
Automobile accident near the Valley Iron Furnace on the outskirts of Albright, WV. | July 9, 1973 |
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| Donald Gene Morris Sr. - family of Mary "Adaline" (Miller) Shaffer | Killed with a co-worker when their company pickup truck was rammed head-on by another truck at Main and Melick Streets in Mount Vernon, OH. | July 30, 1973 |
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| James William Madden - family of Martha Aurilla (Fawcett) Shomaker | While stopped along Route 17 in Yorktown, VA, to help a motorist who was out of fuel, he went to get gasoline and was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. | Aug. 26, 1973 | |||
| James Edward Herbeck and brother Paul David Herbeck - family of David "Nesbit" Miner | Automobile accident on Highway 146 near Seabrook, TX. | Dec. 17, 1973 |
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| Susan Denise Pratton - family of Mary Catherine (McKnight) Pratton | Vehicle in which she was a passenger collided with a truck at the intersection of 75th Street West and Manatee Avenue in Bradenton, FL. | July 26, 1974 | |||
| Jerry E. Sumey - family of Catherine (Minerd) Zinn | Age 4, a car he was riding in ran off Rablee Road in Flint Township, Genesee County, MI | June 14, 1974 | |||
| David Gene Grimm - family of Martha (Leonard) Turney | Was riding his motorcycle heading north on Route 711 near Normalville, PA. The bike struck a guard rail and he was hurled over the hillside, landing next to a creek. | July 28, 1974 |
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| Ralph Lee Smalley - family of Sarah Elizabeth (Turner) Smalley | At the wheel of an automobile which crashed into a tree along Coolspring Road near Lemont Furnace, PA | Sept. 29, 1974 |
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| John Edward Hall II - family of Thomas Minerd | Vehicle rolled over an embankment. | Oct. 1974 |
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| James A. Brown - family of Hannah "Lucy" (Murray) Eicher | Vehicle went out of control, struck a utility pole, rolled over and came to rest on another utility pole along Route 711 near Connellsville, PA. | March 22, 1975 |
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| Dale Alan Geary II - family of Christena (Emerick) Burkett | Killed when his mini-bike collided with a pickup truck on a sharp turn about two miles north of Route 36 at Mt. Savage, MD. The mini-bike lodged underneath the chassis. | July 22, 1975 |
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| Lillie Kathryn "Kathy" (Solomon) Overturf - family of William G. Miner | Injured near Wooster, OH when she was driving north on Ohio Route 57 and collided with a car which had run a stop sign. Pronounced dead on arrival at Wooster Community Hospital. | Oct. 29, 1975 |
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| Delbert E. Rankin - family of George W. Rankin | Having missed a turn, and then backing up on Route 119 at Collier Crossroads near Fairchance, PA, was struck by a truck. | Dec. 30, 1975 |
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Melvin Rose - family of Charles H. Rose |
Vehicle crossed the center line and collided head-on with another on the Springfield Pike near Connellsville, PA. | June 15, 1976 |
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| Curtis Allen Gibbs - family of Mary Catherine "Mollie" (McKnight) Pratton | Motorcycle accident in Key West, FL | Aug. 27, 1976 |
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| Albert J. Porterfield - family of Thomas Ream Jr. | His International station wagon skidded on an icy road near Confluence, PA and plunged down an embankment, colliding with a tree. | Dec. 3, 1977 |
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| Darrell Wayne Dean - family of James "Andrew" Dean | Automobile accident in or near Terre Haute, IN | Jan. 1, 1978 |
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| Carl Henry Richter Jr. - family of Mary Ann (Miner) Richter | Motorcycle accident | 1979 |
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| Clark “Bunky” Kusaj - family of Charles Arthur "Charleroi Charley" Younkin |
At age 15, was among 10 children en route to a party in a pickup truck along Patuxent Road in Anne Arundel County, MD. The driver lost control and careened into a row of trees. The Washington Post called it "Maryland's worst traffic accident in a decade." | April 23, 1979 |
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| Charles Lewis "Skip" Miller Jr. - family of Irene (Miner) Welsh | Automobile accident, possibly in West Virginia | April 28, 1979 |
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| Harter Mayle Jr. - family of Mary (Mayle) Croston Hunter | Critically hurt in an automobile-motorcycle accident at Navarre Road and Perry Drive Southwest in Canton, OH. Lingered for a month before death. | July 30, 1979 |
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| George Daniel Ray Sr. - family of Margaret Catherine "Maggie" (Miner) White Ramsell | Struck by a moving vehicle as he walked on Route M-37 near Yankee Springs Road in Michigan. | Jan. 25, 1980 | |||
Lenard Philip Ayers - family of Susan (Dillow) West |
While piloting a Lear jet, the aircraft crashed near Dalhart, TX |
April 11, 1980 | |||
| Harry Edward Roe - family of Hannah "Lucy" (Murray) Eicher | While on Route 51 near Perryopolis, PA, the driver of a northbound truck crossed a small concrete median barrier and collided with Harry's truck headed southbound. | Oct. 28, 1981 |
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| Diana Lynn (Shaffer) Houze - family of Harry Russell Minerd | Motorcycle accident in or near Smithfield, PA | Sept. 5, 1983 |
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Arthur Minor - family of William Thomas Minard |
Struck and killed by two automobiles near the intersection of Lake Road in Clarendon, NY. Suspecting foul play, the family engaged a psychic to try to solve the mystery and asked that additional assistance. | June 7, 1984 |
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| John "Wayne" Prinkey - family of George E. Rowan |
Accident while driving on Route 35 north of Corriganville, MD | 1985 |
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| Howard J. Mayle - family of James Riley Woody | While driving his hay wagon on Ohio Route 555 near Chesterhill, the wagon was struck by a hit-and-run dump truck. | July 19, 1985 | |||
| Elmer David "Wink" Stillwagon - family of Irene (Miner) Welsh | Stopped to assist someone in an automobile accident, and suffered a heart attack with death following soonafter. | Sept. 14, 1985 |
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| Alan R. Leslie - family of Amanda (Younkin) Hechler | Vehicle left Route 55044 in Milford Township, Somerset County, PA and struck two trees. | May 1986 |
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| Jon Robert Willis - family of Charles Addison Dillow | His vehicle was struck by a drunk driver who failed to yield at a stop sign n Durkin Drive near Springfield, IL. | Dec. 20, 1986 | |||
| Charles J. Haggard - family of Harry Minerd | While driving alone eastbound on the Gene Snyder Freeway at the overpass of Interstate 65 near Louisville, KY, the car struck a bridge abutment, continued down the road, went off the side, struck a guard rail and overturned. | June 21, 1987 |
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| David Houghton Jr. - family of Jesse Floyd Goins | Vehicle accident in Charlotte, MI | Nov. 23, 1987 |
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| Joseph William Shaffer Jr. - family of Harry Russell Minerd | Automobile veered across into the oncoming lane and crashed into a tree, bursting into flames, on Route 119 north of York Run Crossroads near Smithfield, PA | Sept. 26, 1988 |
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| Robert C. Haddad Sr. - family of Caroline (Miner) Musser | Three-car accident on Mary Street in Lansing, MI, with his vehicle colliding with a northbound motorist, then becoming airborne and flipping onto a third car. | Oct. 28, 1988 | |||
| Joseph Cassius Cooperrider - family of Allie (Johnston) Cooperrider | Automobile accident believed to have been in San Jose, CA. | Nov. 11, 1990 |
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| George C. Palm - family of Lillian (Miner) Sheaks Little | Automobile accident near Fremont, OH | Dec. 16, 1990 | |||
| Russell E. Johnson - family of Laura Belle (Younkin) Shroyer | One-vehicle accident in Saltlick Township, Fayette County, PA | 1991 |
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| Brian "Todd" Core - family of James "William" Overfield | Struck by a hit-and-run motorist while riding his bicycle on Illinois Route 13 near Crab Orchard Marina in Williamson, IL | Aug. 1, 1991 | |||
| Kinnison Frederick Cribley - family of Daniel Miner | A volunteer fireman in Oregon, OH, was en route to a fire scene at the corner of Wheeling and Munding when his vehicle collided with another. | Dec. 13, 1991 | |||
| Charlotte Delight (Moore) Tanner - family of David "Nesbit" Miner | While riding with her aunt Orabelle Courntey in League City near Galveston, TX, their Ford Crown Victoria turned from the Interstate 45 feeder road onto FM 646 and collided with another vehicle. |
Aug. 13, 1992 |
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| Doris Livonia (Delamere) Fenner Walker - family of Sylvia (Dillow) Delamere West | Her vehicle collided with one operated by a 15-year-old unlicensed driver as she was turning from Cleveland Road onto Parkview Street near South Bend, IN, ejecting her from the car. | Feb. 10, 1993 |
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| Larry Ray "Butch" Anderson - family of George E. Rowan | Automobile accident | July 11, 1993 |
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| Carl Leonard Hall Sr. - family of Elizabeth (Rowan) Hall | While en route to a nighttime service call in Quakertown, PA, his towtruck struck a large tractor trailer backing into a driveway along Route 313 in East Rockhill Township. | Dec. 19, 1993 | |||
| Alicia Ann Mayle - family of George Riley Minard | Automobile accident south of Grafton on U.S. Route 199 and Route 250. | Dec. 4, 1994 |
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| April C. Mayle - family of Sarepta (Kennedy) Mayle |
Struck by a hit-and-run driver in Michigan | May 6, 1997 |
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| Timothy Daniel Pirl - family of Charles H. Rose | Automobile accident | July 10, 1997 |
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| Asenath "Sennie" (Bennett) Helmantoler - family of Marcellus Murray | While driving on Route 481 in Centerville, PA, on a sharp curve, she lost control of her car which tumbled over a 25-foot embankment. | Nov. 27, 1997 |
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| Stacy Halbrook - family of William G. Miner | While making a sharp curve on Mountain Road, Berks County, PA, her van veered across the road and into a tree, rolling over and coming to rest in the middle of the road. | May 29, 1999 |
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| Matthew James Gaumer - family of Daniel Gaumer | Automobile accident along Interstate 80 near Colfax, IA. | June 27, 1999 | |||
| Gary Allen Peck - family of Amanda (Younkin) Hechler | While driving on Route 281 in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, PA, his truck veered off the road, hit a dirt embankment, rolled and plunged down a steep hill. | Oct. 29, 1999 |
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| Howard E. Walter - family of William Samuel Jewell | Automobile accident in or near Toledo, OH. | Dec. 19, 1999 |
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| Leslie D. Quairiere, RN - family of Mary "Alice" (Minerd) Ellis Doughty |
At age 28, driving near her home in DuBois, PA, her venicle was struck by one operated by a drunk driver. She was life-flighted to Pittsburgh and died soon after arrival. | June 12, 2000 |
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| Pauline (Kennedy) Sephfus Flowers - family of John H. Kennedy | Automobile accident near Chesterhill, OH | Nov. 20, 2000 |
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| Jeremy Robert Henderson - family of John W. Miner | At age 12, killed in a vehicular accident south of Montana City, MT | July 28, 2001 |
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| Scott Love - family of Elijah Krick | Automobile accident in or near New Haven, IN | March 28, 2002 |
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| Ray Lou (Brunner) Miner - family of John W. Miner | Automobile accident in or near Alliance/Cleveland, OH | Oct. 19, 2002 |
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| Larry Steven "Steve" Rose - family of Charles H. Rose | Fell asleep at the wheel, drifted off the road and collided into a tree near Kreager, PA. | Dec. 3, 2002 |
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| Thomas M. Isiminger - family of Andrew Jackson Birch | Killed when the vehicle in which he was a passenger was speeding on Interstate 79, lost control and crashed into a bridge abutment. |
Sept. 18, 2003 |
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| Justin Lee Kingan - family of Thomas Minerd | Vehicle crossed into the median strip and went out of control into the oncoming lane and into the path of a tractor trailer on Route 119 near the Fayette County Fairgrounds near Dunbar, PA. | Dec. 6, 2003 |
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| John R. and Sandra Ann (Anastasion) Means - family of Mary Ann (Miner) Richter | Automobile accident on Route 31 near Donegal, PA when their vehicle was struck head-on by another car which had crossed the centerline on a curve in the road. | Jan. 1, 2004 |
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| Joshua Isaac Allen - family of John William Rankin | Vehiclular accident, possibly in or near his home in Cave Junction, OR | July 7, 2004 |
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| Jeanetta Pearl (Donaldson) Loncharick Nicholson - family of Charles H. Rose | During a domestic dispute in front of their home near Normalville, PA, she moved onto the road and was struck by an oncoming vehicle, flipping her body flipped over where it was hit by another car moving in the opposite direction. | Nov. 29, 2004 |
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| Melanie Mayle - family of Inez Gertrude (Hayes) Crippen | Automobile accident on Route 550 near Bartlett, OH. | April 6, 2005 |
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| Ryan Charles Jobes - family of Charles Ray Minor | Automobile accident on Interstate 64 near Beckley, WV | Dec. 20, 2005 |
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Joseph Norman Miner III - family of William M. Miner |
Automobile accident in Delton, MI | Sept. 27, 2006 |
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| Donald E. Nichols Sr. - family of Rachel (Minerd) Mayle | Automobile accident - details not known | 2007 |
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| Frederick Alan "Sudz"Bernichio - family of Charles S. Luckey |
Motorcycle accident near his home in New Mexico | Dec. 18, 2007 |
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| Melenia Bierworth - family of Daniel Miner | Accident on Interstate 80 near Grove City, PA | June 20, 2008 | |||
| Matthew David McLaughlin - families of Martha (Leonard) Turney and Charles H. Rose |
Vehicle accident, possibly in or near Connellsville, PA | March 18, 2012 |
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| Dawnielle Paige Victor - families of Charles H. Rose and Enoch Miner Sr. | Passenger in a two-car automobile accident along Breakneck Road in Connellsville, PA | Jan. 13, 2012 |
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Amber Hall - family of John Andrew Miner |
Automobile accident in or near Magnolia, OH | Jan. 1, 2013 |
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| James Eugene "Jim" Jones - family of Agnes (Younkin) Crabtree | Passenger in a vehicle which collided with another vehicle which had run a stop sign at the intersection of Ohio Rouite 231 and Township Road 43 between Nevada and Sycamore, OH. | March 30, 2015 |
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| Kodie Maray Hollinshead - family of Dora (Miner) Dawkins | All-terrain vehicle accident in Effingham, IL | Oct. 23, 2016 |
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| Jamilyn Renee Hull - family of John Andrew Miner | Automobile accident in The Woodlands, TX | June 25, 2015 |
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| Charles William Renkel - family of Margaret Catherine "Maggie" (Miner) White Ramsell | Lost control of his Dodge Durango along County Road 6064 near Springfield, MO, leading to a crash. He died 3 days later. | Dec. 22, 2015 | |||
| Theresa (Minerd) Charnovich - family of Thomas Michael Minerd | The vehicle in which she and her daughter were riding was struck head-on by a driver under the influence of heroin. She lingered for 4½ months until death. | June 9, 2016 |
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| Timothy Arl Helms - family of Mary "Adaline" (Miller) Shaffer | "Fiery" motorcycle accident on State Route 3 and Fulton Road in or near Wooster, OH. | June 12, 2016 |
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| Andrew James McLaughlin - family of Martha (Leonard) Turney |
Vehicle accident, possibly in or near Connellsville, PA | April 30, 2017 |
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Tiffany Shelby Minerd - family of Arthur Ralph “Buck” Minerd Sr. |
Vehicle crashed into a tree and fence along East Main Street near Uniontown, PA, careening into the porch of one house and coming to rest against another. | April 4, 2019 |
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| Robin L. Mayle - family of Sarepta (Kennedy) Mayle | Five-vehicle accident on U.S. Route 250 near Corley Church in Barbour County, WV, involving her 1996 Oldsmobile Ciera SL and a 1994 Western Star dump truck. | Sept. 12, 2019 |
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| Brian Michael Starkey - family of Emily Jane (Minerd) Mayle | Motorcycle accident in or near Carrollton, OH | Oct. 3, 2020 |
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| Matthew Wayne Sealock - family of Ollie Margaret (Miner) Plants | On oncoming vehicle crossed Martha Berry Highway near Berry College in Rome, GA and collided with his car head-on. | April 22, 2021 |
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| Laura Kathryn Minerd - family of Wilbert Regis "Patsy" Minerd | Headed to Thanksgiving Day dinner, was struck and killed by a pickup truck while walking in a restaurant parking lot at the intersection of Highway 74/East Dixon Blvd. and Dekalb Street, Shelby, NC. | Nov. 26, 2021 |
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| Sharon (Mosley) Jones - family of Clyde J. Jones | Motorcycle accident, probably in Texas. | ? |
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| James William Madden - family of Martha (Fawcett) Shomaker | Automobile accident | ? |
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