Fulton-Wabash County IN Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Ellis March 1880
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The Rochester Sentinel
Saturday, April 3, 1880

Ellis WILSON, formerly a resident of this place but for the past few years a 
citizen of Wabash county, came to his death in a horrible manner at Terre 
Haute on Friday of last week. He had engaged to a railroad company to do 
carpenter work and had gone to Terre Haute to begin his labors. Walking on the 
railroad track within the limits of the city, he was run over by a switch 
engine and both of his legs horribly mangled and cut off close to his body. In 
that condition he lived for four days and was well taken care of by the 
railroad company but his life could not be saved. Mr. Wilson's habits while a 
resident of this place are well known and need not be spoken of. After going 
to Wabash he reformed, and for a considerable time did a prosperous business 
as proprietor of one of the hotels, but his old appetite for strong drink 
again got the mastery of him and he sunk as low as he had been at any time 
while a citizen of Rochester. His family removed to North Manchester where it 
now is and he became a wanderer. It is said, however, that a short time 
previous to his death he had "braced up" and left off drinking and was going 
to work to redeem his past wasted life as fully as possible. His treatment of 
his family had been so notoriously bad that his wife and daughters refused to 
visit him in his affliction. He was a man of great nerve and refused to be put 
under the influence of opiates during the amputation of his limbs and the 
dressing of his wounds.



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Wendell C. Tombaugh



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