Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-03-09
STRANGE FATALITY.
The ~E1traOrdIhAry Series Of NIishaps
) Which Befeu = Pennsylvania Family.

AAo extraordinary Serlos OF MlSnaps
Which BefeH = Pennsylvania Family.
"A gentleman of undisputed truthful
ness and veracity gave the following
Interesting bit Of family history, and at
his REQUEST we will not give the name,
bnt the facts contained IL the recital of
the following can be verified at this
office At any time. The ~entIenan said;
q family det mother and
father, hsfep we're pine Oh ldrou. six
boys al thpeeS 2tfM. Father was a
elacksptt BY trRds, q skilled work
mani and lived ap nprights consistent
Christian 4iI& He was passionately
fond OF his home and children, and
worked hard for their interests. At.
the proper age all of the boys learned
tFadesl as follows; George, the oldest
boy, became a blacksmith; Charles, a
candy manufacturer, and later he
learned the locomotive engineers trade;
Frank, a carpenter; Richard, a printer;
Henry, aprofessorin abqsiness college,
William was studying chemistry when
he met with a sudden and violent death
from lockjaw, caused by cutting his
foot while in bathing in the river. You
a call it a series of strange fatalities
il you wish, or by any other term, and
yet l dare say there is no family Of the
same number of ours that has passed
through an experience in any way sim
'ilar..
q ''The father was twice confined to
the House with ssevepe illness, once with
smallpox and another time with typhoid
fever in its most malignant form.
when deputy sheriff Of the county
he was suhstruck while out on official
business, and fell from the sulky on to
the horse which caused it to run away,
horribly matllatfhg father and laying
him upfof sevefal months IA year or
two later ne fell from a church steeple,
where he had been repairing a light
'hingifod, a,distauce Of forty4nine feet,
but from this he received no percepti-
bile injuries A few years later he slip
ped and broke his leg while, getting off
a passenger train, and1ast summer he
died suddenly from heaft complaint.
while, standing on the porch atthe back
door OF the house.
The mother died as suddenly Of the
Same eomplaintin 1876. Charles, the.
engineer, died a violent death, almost
instantly, by being injured by the cars
in 1872. In 1869 George, the black
Smith, while working at his trade had
his nose accidentally broken by a steel
hammer, which slipped from the handle
and hitting him in. the face. / think it
was in 1860 or 1861 that sister Kate
broke her arm while jumping rope.
Frank, bhd carpenter, broke his leg
while skating in the year 1872. VIII,
the brother who died of lock-jaw, broke
his arm in 1874, while picking cherries.
by falling from the tree to the ground.
A few hours later on the very same day
the bandages were removed, he again
broke the same limb by slipping and
falling, the break being but two inches
above the former one. In 1885 Henry,
the school teacher, while visiting
friends in the country, had his leg
broken by being thrown from the car
riage attached to a runaway horse. In
1886 Anna, the eldest Of the children,
slipped and fell down7stairs, breaking
her arm.
while this story may seem almost
incredible to others, it is nevertheless
true, every word of it. and the only
thing l can't understand about it is,
why should n family more than an
other have such an experience. You
CANT answer that question, neither a
ANY one else."-Ol City Derrick.
EHANIs A EHtE " .N. |#'fHH H.a. 49,