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From: "Pamelyn P. Bush" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] News Clip: John A. Jacquish
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:10:37 -0500
References: <20040327204535.RREG1797.imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>


If anyone is interested, John A. Jacquish died 11 September 1917. My
interest is through his daughter, Mary Sarah "Sophia" Jacquish who married
Thomas F. Welsh the son of Morris S. Welsh and Phebe Bush. Most of these
Welshes are buried in Rural Hill Cemetery, Whitehouse. Thanks to Lisa I now
have the parents and siblings of Mary S. Jacquish.
Pam Bush


Wood Cutter Instantly Killed

John A. JACQUISH, eighty-two years old, whose home was near Fairmount, was
instantly killed ometime on Tuesday, while he was at work. He had felled a
number of trees in a wood tract near his home a few days before to be
converted into posts and rails. Several of these trees had lodged together
and he had made the remark before going to work that it would be a hard job
to get them out of the tangle. Just how he met his death is not known, but
the supposition is that one of the heavy branches of a tree came loose
unexpectedly to Mr. JACQUISH and flew back and struck him in the head,
because when his body was found he laid in a pool of blood with his skull
crushed.

Mrs. JACQUISH last heard him chopping away in the woods at about ten
o'clock in the morning and she thought nothing strange of it when he did not
come home to dinner, because it was often not unusual for him to go to the
store or to some neighbor's house nearby to take a bite at the noon hour.

When he did not return late in the afternoon she sent out a little school
girl to see what had become of him. The youngster soon discovered his
lifeless body. Word was sent to Coroner J. Charles ALPAUGH, of New
Germantown, who viewed the body and granted a burial permit for accidental
death. Mr. JACQUISH had been a lifelong resident of the
Fairmount-Pottersville section and was well liked by all who knew him.
Besides his widow he leaves the following children: Isaiah JACQUISH, of
Pottersville; William JACQUISH, of Hamden; Mrs. Thomas L. WELCH, of
Whitehouse Station; Mrs. James H. MAC DONALD, of East Whitehouse; Mrs. Anna
CONOVER, of Fairmount; Mrs. Albert MOORE, of Far Hills; Mrs. Charles APGAR,
of Mountainville, and Mrs. John ALPAUGH, of Lebanon.

Funeral services Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the late residence.
Rev. Harry J. IOBST, pastor of the M. E. Church at Fairmount, officiated,
and the burial was in the M. E. cemetery at Fairmount by Undertaker ALPAUGH,
of New Germantown.



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