Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....William STUART, 1911
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"Evening Times" Cumberland, Maryland 22 Aug 1911: "
HUSBAND KILLED AS HE IS ABOUT TO GREET HIS WIFE. 
Mr. William Stuart Run down By Train Opposite Harper's Ferry. Wife 
Was Returning to Her Home at Bolivar From a Visit to Her Parents in 
Cumberland, and Husband Had Gone to Depot to Welcome Her Upon Her 
Arrival, When Accident Occurred. Mrs. William Stewart (sic) who had 
been visiting her parents on Bellvue street, this city, left for her
home at Bolivar, opposite Harper's Ferry, yesterday afternoon on B. 
& O. train No. 6, in a happy frame of mind, as her father and mother, 
Mrs. and Mrs. Levi Decker, were all packed up ready to remove to 
where Mrs. Steward (sic) lived. As the train which carried Mrs. 
Stewart (sic) home slowed up at Harper's Ferry, she noticed a crowd 
of people collected near the station, but she little dreamed what is 
meant to her until she alighted from the train, when she was informed 
that her husband had just been killed. Mr. Stewart (sic) who was a 
prominent liveryman at Bolivar, had started to the station to meet 
his wife when she arrived. In order to reach the station it was 
necessary for him to cross a railroad bridge, and upon attempting to 
do so was run down by B. & O. train No. 55 and almost instantly 
killed. Mr. Stewart, (sic) who was about forty years of age, when he 
saw that the train was almost upon him, tried to climb a signal post, 
but was hurled to his death ere he could do so. Mrs. Stewart (sic) 
had intended going home on Sunday, but concluded she would remain 
over until yesterday, as she had neglected buying anything to take 
home to her four little children, and knew that they would be 
disappointed, she prolonged her visit for the express purpose of 
having an opportunity to make some purchases that would gladden the 
hearts of her little ones. A report reached here today that another 
member of the family had died very suddenly, but this report could 
not be verified. Mr. Decker, the father of Mrs. Stewart, (sic) has 
just been placed upon the retired list of the B. & O. pension 
department, having reached the age limit. Mr. Decker was in the 
service of the road 33 years and only missed fourteen days from duty 
on account of recreation. Mr. and Mrs. Decker were going to spend the 
remained of their days at Mrs. Stewart's home, and the latter had 
been here helping her parents to pack up."


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