BRECKENRIDGE COUNTY NEWS OBITUARY 06/10/1908
REMAINS OF ALLEN BURCH BROUGHT HOME FROM GALLAGHER, ILLINOIS TO HARDINSBURG LIVED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
The remains of Allen Burch, son of J.O. Burch, of Kewanee, IL, arrived here Sunday night and were buried in St. Romuald's Cemetery Monday morning. On trying to alight from a moving train last Thursday at Gallagher, IL, young Burch, aged 20, fell and was thrown under the train, suffering such mangling of feet and limbs that both legs had to be amputated. He survived the amputation but died on Friday. Allen Burch formerly lived two miles from Hardinsburg on the Leitchfield road. Two or three years ago they moved to Illinois. He was an excellent young man and had many friends. The father and three brothers accompanied the remains here for burial. The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the bereaved in this untimely death of one just entering into manhood.
REMAINS OF ALLEN BURCH BROUGHT HOME FROM GALLAGHER, ILLINOIS TO HARDINSBURG LIVED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
The remains of Allen Burch, son of J.O. Burch, of Kewanee, IL, arrived here Sunday night and were buried in St. Romuald's Cemetery Monday morning. On trying to alight from a moving train last Thursday at Gallagher, IL, young Burch, aged 20, fell and was thrown under the train, suffering such mangling of feet and limbs that both legs had to be amputated. He survived the amputation but died on Friday. Allen Burch formerly lived two miles from Hardinsburg on the Leitchfield road. Two or three years ago they moved to Illinois. He was an excellent young man and had many friends. The father and three brothers accompanied the remains here for burial. The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the bereaved in this untimely death of one just entering into manhood.
BRECKENRIDGE COUNTY NEWS OBITUARY 06/10/1908
REMAINS OF ALLEN BURCH BROUGHT HOME FROM GALLAGHER, ILLINOIS TO HARDINSBURG LIVED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
The remains of Allen Burch, son of J.O. Burch, of Kewanee, IL, arrived here Sunday night and were buried in St. Romuald's Cemetery Monday morning. On trying to alight from a moving train last Thursday at Gallagher, IL, young Burch, aged 20, fell and was thrown under the train, suffering such mangling of feet and limbs that both legs had to be amputated. He survived the amputation but died on Friday. Allen Burch formerly lived two miles from Hardinsburg on the Leitchfield road. Two or three years ago they moved to Illinois. He was an excellent young man and had many friends. The father and three brothers accompanied the remains here for burial. The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the bereaved in this untimely death of one just entering into manhood.
REMAINS OF ALLEN BURCH BROUGHT HOME FROM GALLAGHER, ILLINOIS TO HARDINSBURG LIVED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
The remains of Allen Burch, son of J.O. Burch, of Kewanee, IL, arrived here Sunday night and were buried in St. Romuald's Cemetery Monday morning. On trying to alight from a moving train last Thursday at Gallagher, IL, young Burch, aged 20, fell and was thrown under the train, suffering such mangling of feet and limbs that both legs had to be amputated. He survived the amputation but died on Friday. Allen Burch formerly lived two miles from Hardinsburg on the Leitchfield road. Two or three years ago they moved to Illinois. He was an excellent young man and had many friends. The father and three brothers accompanied the remains here for burial. The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the bereaved in this untimely death of one just entering into manhood.
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