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From: Rita Stanifer Maggard <>
Subject: Re: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from The Mt. Echo 1904 (19)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:54:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: <003601c00d40$c67b20c0$909ba6d0@oemcomputer>


Bless you, Gerri!

Finally, some of my folks show up!!!!!

This is the same cemetery where my grandparents and parents are buried, just
down the road from my house! It is now called the Stanifer-Tipton Cemetery.
I've seen Charles Godsey's grave all my life but didn't have a clue as to
how he died.

The Mrs. J.M. Stanifer (John Milas) mentioned below is my paternal
great-grandmother, Amanda Melissa Godsey. I have photos on my
Stanifer-Deaton page.

As Tony the Tiger would say....this is just GRrrrrrrreat !

Rita

> From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
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> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:29:01 -0400
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> Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from The Mt. Echo 1904 (19)
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> Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:22:45 -0700
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> Reprinted with permission of the Laurel Co Historical Soc.
> ************************************************************************
> JANUARY 29, 1904
>
> A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
>
> Last Monday evening as he was on his way home, driving in a two horse wagon,
> Mr. Charles Godsey was run down by the South-bound passenger train at the
> Sublimity crossing at this place and instantly killed. At the time the train
> struck him the wagon was directly across the track and the bed was smashed
> to pieces. The wagon was broke in the middle and half went on one side and
> half on the other side, breaking the coupling poll, tongue, one wheel and
> did considerable other damage besides tearing up the bed. what seemed queer
> about the wreck was that one horse was killed and the other one was not
> damaged. Mr. Godsey, was thrown into the air and went clear over the pilot,
> his head hitting the end of the left cylinder, crushing the skull and
> breaking his neck. A large crowd gathered around viewing the wreck, some
> telling how it happened for several children that were on their way home
> from school saw it and some telling how it could have been prevented.
> The body was placed in the baggage car and taken to the depot where it was
> placed in the waiting room and soon afterward removed to the Jackson Hotel
> to be prepared for burial. The funeral was conducted at Mr. Godsey's home,
> some miles South of town, by Rev. Stump and the remains were laid to rest in
> the Catching graveyard on Tuesday a host of sorrowing friends attending. Mr.
> Godsey was 53 years old and was a kind hearted and respected citizen. He
> leaves a wife and two children. Mrs. J. M. Stanifer and Cleveland Godsey who
> have the sympathy of many friends. No one knows just how this accident
> occurred but it is thought that Mr. Godsey, who is a little hard of hearing
> failed to hear the crossing signal and was not aware of the approaching
> danger. The first thing the engineer noticed was the horses heads coming
> over the track, the balance being hidden from his view by the engine and he
> at once blew the caution signal, but no sooner was this done than the awful
> crash came. The train came to a standstill as soon as possible, but could
> not be stopped until it had gone some distance on account of the fast motion
> of the train.
>
>
>
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