Frances Marie Libby

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Frances Marie Libby

Birth
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
18 Jul 1904 (aged 2)
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
lot NW 22, sec J M, Martin Ochs Lot; Film # 1479679
Memorial ID
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On their way to Highland Park in Pittsburgh in a pony trap, she was thrown from her mother's arms when the horse took a fright from the street car. The child was singing when the accident happened. She died instantly from a crushed skull.
Among the injured were: Mrs Edwin Libby (nee Katherine Ochs), Mrs Frederick Keebler (nee Elizabeth Ochs), her children, Frederick Keebler & Margaret Keebler.

Note: Family sources state that the husband of Elizabeth Ochs Keebler, who stabled horses, had concerns when his wife took the horse and stated that the horse was "high spirited". His wife replied "don't worry I can handle him". She was driving the trap when the accident happened.

On another note from another family source state that the father of Frances Libby, Edwin Libby, never spoke another word to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Ochs Keebler, for the rest of his life and would leave whenever she came around. Edwin carried the above picture of his daughter in a watch fob the rest of his life.
On their way to Highland Park in Pittsburgh in a pony trap, she was thrown from her mother's arms when the horse took a fright from the street car. The child was singing when the accident happened. She died instantly from a crushed skull.
Among the injured were: Mrs Edwin Libby (nee Katherine Ochs), Mrs Frederick Keebler (nee Elizabeth Ochs), her children, Frederick Keebler & Margaret Keebler.

Note: Family sources state that the husband of Elizabeth Ochs Keebler, who stabled horses, had concerns when his wife took the horse and stated that the horse was "high spirited". His wife replied "don't worry I can handle him". She was driving the trap when the accident happened.

On another note from another family source state that the father of Frances Libby, Edwin Libby, never spoke another word to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Ochs Keebler, for the rest of his life and would leave whenever she came around. Edwin carried the above picture of his daughter in a watch fob the rest of his life.