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"GUARD TO LINCOLN DEAD. -- Edwin D. Lee Was One of Seven Survivors of the Battle of Gettysburg in Malden. MALDEN, May 21 -- Edwin D. Lee died yesterday at his home, 6 Knollin St, after a lingering illness from heart trouble and complications. He was born in Bath, Me., 85 years ago and had lived here 31 years. For several years he was janitor of the First Universalist Church.
At the beginning of the Civil War,, Mr. Lee joined Co. G, 19th Massachusetts Regiment and later was in the Veterans' Reserve Corps. He was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Fort Hill, Mine Run, Chancellorsville and one of the seven Malden survivors of the battle of Gettysburg. He was in hospitals in Washington and Baltimore and served as a guard for Pres. Lincoln and later helped to guard prisoners.
He is survived by one son, William E. Lee,, and three daughters, Mrs. Nelson H. Johnson, Miss Anna A. Lee and Miss Ella A. Lee. He was a prominent member of Hiram G. Berry Post 40, G.A.R."--21 May 1914, The Boston (MA) Globe
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"Pinellas Park -- HORSTMAN, PAUL K., 72, of the Mainlands, Pinellas Park, died Saturday (Aug. 3, 1996) at home. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and came here in 1986 from Long Island, N.Y. A graduate of Syracuse (N.Y.) University with a degree in chemical engineering, he was a project manager for a construction company, and owned and operated a marina on Long Island. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II. He was a treasurer of the local chapter of Sons of the American Revolution, director and treasurer of Mainlands Unit 5 Homeowners Association, and a director of Marine Trades Association in Long Island. He was a trustee at Babylon Methodist Church, Long Island. Survivors include his wife, Muriel; two daughters, Cheryl Mandelbaum, Long Island City, N.Y., and Dale Willing, Catonsville, Md.; his mother, Edith Horstman, Pinellas Park; a sister, Lillian Rowe, Plainfield, Ill.; and three grandchildren. E. James Reese Funeral Home & Crematory, Seminole."--6 Aug 1996, Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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"McGILL, WILL W., of 2523 20th St. S, died Saturday (Oct 13, 1984). Born in Quincy, he came here in 1943 from Havana, Fla. and was a butler for Sunset Hotel, retiring in 1962. He was a member of New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church and Lily White Lodge 105. Survivors include his wife Evie; two daughters, Ruthie Mae Cummings and Lady Bea Johnson, both of Jacksonville; a son Willie, St. Petersburg; three sisters, Vandelia Sapp and Mamie Woodbury, both of Tallahassee, and Stella Hunter, Daytona Beach; four brothers, Ralph, Tallahassee, Henry, Havana, Frank, New York, and Willie J., Fort Lauderdale; eight grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Creal Funeral Home."--15 Oct 1984, Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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"ANNIE PEARL SAGELY -- SALLISAW -- Mrs. Annie Pearl Sagely, 72, died Tuesday at her home in Muldrow. She was born May 20, 1888 in Indian Territory.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in the First Baptist Church of Muldrow. Burial will be in the Upper Camp Creek Cemetery under direction of Wheeler Funeral Home.
Mrs. Sagely is survived by her husband, A. H.; four daughters, Mrs. Geneva Dailey and Mrs. Mary Raney, both of Sallisaw, Mrs. Vera Dollar of Wagoner and Mrs. Wanda Faye Orr of Lamarque, Texas; three sons, Bill and Jack, both of Muldrow, and Joe of Costa Mesa, California; 15 grandchildren/ 14 great-grandchildren, one brother, Edgar Blackard of Muldrow and two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Moton of Muldrow and Mrs. Ora Metcalf of Fort Smith, Arkansas."--15 Sep 1960, Muskogee (OK) Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat
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"PROMINENT JOPLIN MAN KILLED BY A MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN -- David C. Hoover, Aged 73, Drove His Car Into the Train at a Railway Crossing -- Geo. Hedges the Train Conductor. -- Joplin, Mo, Nov. 26 -- No blame was placed by a coroner's jury last night at an inquest conducted into the death of David C. Hoover, 73 years old, prominent Joplin life insurance representative and a former president of the Rotary Club, who was killed instantly at 9:20 o'clock yesterday morning when his motor car, in which he was riding alone, collided with an inbound Missouri Pacific passenger train at the East Seventh street crossing near Leonard park.
Testimony brought out no additional information concerning the accident.
Thrown from the car, a new sedan, as it was dragged approximately 100 feet south from the crossing, Mr. Hoover suffered a compound fracture of the skull, his neck was broken and his left arm badly shattered.
Mr. Hoover was driving west into Joplin, and the train, inbound from St. Louis, was moving south across Seventh street.
The coroner's jury, in its verdict, exonerated the crew of the passenger train. Coroner W. G. Hogan conducted the inquest. The text of the verdict follows: "David C. Hoover came to his death as a result of him running into, with his automobile, a moving train of the Missouri Pacific railroad at the street crossing on East Seventh street, and we further exonerate the entire train crew."
Only two persons testified they saw the accident. They were James Smith, fireman of the passenger train, and N.H. Carson, an electrician, who was doing electrical work at a nearby house. R. E. Bolen, engineer, and A. Sewell, a truck driver, also testified.
Smith, who was seated on the left side of the engine cab, testified he first noticed the Hoover car about 150 yards from the crossing and that the car was traveling at a rather high rate of speed. He said he shouted to Bolen to sound the whistle and stop. The train had sounded the regulation whistle since it was within a quarter of a mile of the crossing, Smith said.
"It looked like he (Hoover) did not see the train until he was almost upon it." Smith testified. "When he came aware of t he danger, Hoover, who was driving on the north side of the pavement, swerved his car south, striking the engine about 25 feet from the front."
Testimony of Bolen brought out t hat the train was on schedule and was traveling 35 to 40 miles an hour, "its regular rate of speed." He said the train stopped about 500 feet beyond the crossing.
Members of the train crew testified that Mr. Hoover seemingly was dead when they reached him. The motor car was turned over and landed upside down, demolished. Mr. Hoover's body landed near the car.
George Hedges, conductor in charge of the train, who did not testify at the inquest, previously said Mr. Hoover was dead when he reached him soon after the train was stopped. A Lanpher ambulance was called and the body was removed to the Lampher mortuary.
George Hedges, conductor of the train, and R.E. Bolen, engineer are former Nevada residents."--29 Nov 1935, (Nevada, MO) Southwest Mail and The Weekly Post