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George Wilbert McCormick

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George Wilbert McCormick

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
29 May 1929 (aged 27)
Connecticut, USA
Burial
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section: Grass Path Iris, Plot: 34, Grave: 1
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He was the son of Martha Heller and Joseph McCormick,born in Pennsylvania. His mother remarried to Harry Hotchkiss about 1910,shortly after moving to CT. Harry became his step father. He was the brother of Athur N McCormick who died in 1975 in California. His Wife was Isabelle Button of Naugatuck,CT. He and Isabelle has 3 daughters,Isabelle,Kathryn,and My grandmother Marian.When he died,the family lived on Ann st. in New Haven ct.

Funeral services for George McCormick, 27, employed at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad , Montowese Division, who died in Grace Hospital shortly after 7:30 P.M , Wednesday night following an accident which occurred in the Cedar Hill yards will be held from the parlors of Beecher, Bennett & Lincoln 100 Broadway, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 P.M Grace Hospital early Wednesday morning following an accident which occurred while he was riding in a train in the Cedar Hill yards. While attempting to alight from the moving train he slipped and fell beneath the wheels of the train. His right leg was severed at the knee while his left leg was badly crushed.

George is buried in New Haven, at the Evergreen Cemetery. His great granddaughter, Tuesday Porter was recently there,and placed two flags in honor of his Service in the Navy as a First class seaman.

K.C. Jones: Avid Railroad Enthusiast :: George McCormick Falls From Train, Fatally Crushed (1929)
He was the son of Martha Heller and Joseph McCormick,born in Pennsylvania. His mother remarried to Harry Hotchkiss about 1910,shortly after moving to CT. Harry became his step father. He was the brother of Athur N McCormick who died in 1975 in California. His Wife was Isabelle Button of Naugatuck,CT. He and Isabelle has 3 daughters,Isabelle,Kathryn,and My grandmother Marian.When he died,the family lived on Ann st. in New Haven ct.

Funeral services for George McCormick, 27, employed at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad , Montowese Division, who died in Grace Hospital shortly after 7:30 P.M , Wednesday night following an accident which occurred in the Cedar Hill yards will be held from the parlors of Beecher, Bennett & Lincoln 100 Broadway, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 P.M Grace Hospital early Wednesday morning following an accident which occurred while he was riding in a train in the Cedar Hill yards. While attempting to alight from the moving train he slipped and fell beneath the wheels of the train. His right leg was severed at the knee while his left leg was badly crushed.

George is buried in New Haven, at the Evergreen Cemetery. His great granddaughter, Tuesday Porter was recently there,and placed two flags in honor of his Service in the Navy as a First class seaman.

K.C. Jones: Avid Railroad Enthusiast :: George McCormick Falls From Train, Fatally Crushed (1929)


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