Per death certificate he was killed by a train as he was saving his son from being hit by the train. Per census info they lived along the railroad tracks that run thru Waynesburg; and this cemetery is also located close to the tracks just north of Waynesburg.
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stone says he was born 1872.
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married in Mitchell Co, NC to Delia Cox on Dec 6, 1890, license said they were 20 & 19, both ages wrong.
Per death certificate he was killed by a train as he was saving his son from being hit by the train. Per census info they lived along the railroad tracks that run thru Waynesburg; and this cemetery is also located close to the tracks just north of Waynesburg.
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stone says he was born 1872.
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married in Mitchell Co, NC to Delia Cox on Dec 6, 1890, license said they were 20 & 19, both ages wrong.
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