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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** The Aegis & Intelligencer, Vol. XXXII No. 52, Friday, December 30, 1887, page 1 [published in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland] Local Summary for 1887 1/2/1887 Dr. Silas Scarboro thrown from his sleigh and severely injured. 1/4/1887 Miss Katie Smith, daughter of R. Stump Smith, died near Darlington. 1/10/1887 Jas. A. Wiles, of Aberdeen, received severe injuries by a pile of coal which he was loading giving away and completely covering his body. Abigail Hollingsworth died near Fallston. 1/11/1887 Mrs. Wann, wife of James Wann, died near Emmorton. 1/12/1887 Sheriff Robert R. Carman died at his residence in Bel Air. 1/14/1887 Mrs. Isaac Massey died at Darlington. 1/15/1887 Mrs. Elizabeth Bull, wife of John Bull, died suddenly near Warren Factory. 1/17/1887 Mr. Andrew Lyon, a merchant of Harve de Grace, died near Port Deposit. Mr. Elijah Adams died near Mill Green. 1/18/1887 Mr. Thomas B. Jarrett appointed to fill unexpired term of Sheriff Carman. 1/19/1887 Mary Wiles, daughter of James A. Wiles, died near Aberdeen. 1/21/1887 Miss Martha J. Carty died near Level. 1/22/1887 Mr. J. Wm. Magness died at SweetÕs Hotel, Bel Air. 1/27/1887 James Gorman, a brakeman on Maryland Central Railroad, fell from the train and was severely injured. 1/31/1887 Elijah Harvey seriously cut in the neck by George Whittington, on Joshua HusbandÕs farm. 2/2/1887 Stevenson Archer, Jr., son of Hon. Stevenson Archer, died near Bel Air. 2/5/1887 Samuel S. Patterson died near HydeÕs Station, M.C. Railroad. 2/6/1887 Mrs. C. V. Butler died in Bel Air. 2/9/1887 Mrs. Mary Gallton died at Aberdeen. 2/12/1887 Daughter of Samuel J. Norris died at Deep Run. 2/16/1887 Mr. Wm. H. Wells died at Aberdeen. 2/24/1887 Mrs. Jane Poultney died at the residence of her soninlaw, Hon. Henry D. Farnandis. 2/26/1887 Mrs. Annie Markland died at Bel Air. 2/28/1887 Mr. John S. Dallum entered on his duties as internal revenue officer. 3/1/1887 Willie Cross, of Harve de Grace, had his hand badly lacerated by the bursting of a gun. 3/4/1887 Mrs. Sarah Stauffer died at Wilna. Mr. Henry Foster died at Harve de Grace. 3/12/1887 Dr. David S. Gittings died near Kingsville, Baltimore county. 3/15/1887 Mrs. Helen Case died of paralysis in Harve de Grace. 3/16/1887 Mr. John England died near the Rocks. 3/18/1887 Mr. Daniel Lynch, near Fallston, injured by a fall. 3/21/1887 Mrs. Mary Carroll died at her home, near Harve de Grace. 3/22/1887 Miss Maggie Beeman died at Aberdeen. 3/23/1887 Mr. Geo. Riley died at Aberdeen. 3/24/1887 Mrs. Louisa Cord died at Aberdeen. 3/26/1887 Mr. Lindley Vail died at Forest Hill 3/28/1887 Dead body of an unknown man found by Jas. W. Wells, near G. M. Mitchell’s Bush Neck River. 3/31/1887 Mr. Richard Foley died near Level, of consumption. Mr. John H. Bradford died near Abingdon. 4/5/1887 Mrs. Josiah Scarborough injured by the upsetting of a carriage in Dublin district. 4/12/1887 Carville Treadway found dead in his home near Hickory. 4/13/1887 Mrs. Eliza Grant died at Fountain Green. 4/14/1887 Mrs. Catherine Thomas died near Mill Green. 4/16/1887 James Baldwin died at Harve de Grace. Nicholas ParkerÕs barn, near Taylor, burned. 4/23/1887 Mrs. Margaret Bull died near Bel Air, aged 84 years. 4/24/1887 Samuel Forsythe died at Harve de Grace. 4/25/1887 Lewis Martin, formerly of Harford, died in Baltimore. 4/28/1887 John Ferguson died at Darlington. 4/29/1887 Francis Morgan accidentally killed at Harford and Peach Bottom Slate Quarry. 5/1/1887 Mr. Wm. Holland Divers died near Churchville, aged 84 years. 5/3/1887 Mrs. Mary Russell died at HallÕs Cross Roads. Wm. Ehrbart, of Shrewsbury, died in a mysterious manner at Windsor Hotel, Baltimore. 5/6/1887 Miss Jennie Moulsdale, of Abingdon, died in Philadelphia. 5/8/1887 Mr. Thomas Cord, a well known citizen of the second district, died of heart disease. 5/12/1887 Wm. Cooper killed by a train on the Harve de Grace bridge. 5/17/1887 Joseph Wiley, of Norrisville, died. 5/18/1887 Frank Haviland, of Forest Hill, seriously injured by jumping from a train. 5/21/1887 Nelson Ryan seriously injured while trying to jump a train at Perrysville. 5/24/1887 The body of Wm. Fugitt found in Deer Creek. Lizzie Scarborough, formerly of Harford, died in Baltimore. 5/25/1887 James Galloway terribly mangled by a train which he attempted to board at Harve de Grace. 5/26/1887 Barn belonging to Mr. Thos. L. Beaumont, near Pleasantville, destroyed by fire. Willie W. Shadinger, aged 14, died near the Rocks. John Miller, of Peach Bottom, committed suicide by poison. Bertha Lee Jones, aged 2 years, daughter of James R. Jones, accidentally killed by falling from a chair, at her parentsÕ residence, on Major HancockÕs farm, near Bel Air. 5/28/1887 Wm. Harvey died near Slate Hill, in his 90th year. 5/30/1887 Mrs. Ann Eliza Ross, wife of Lycurgus Ross, died near Forest Hill. Parker Gilbert, 74, died near Wesleyan Chapel. 6/1/1887 A colored man named George Chase drowned in the dam at Messrs. Joshua Husband & Sons flint mill, Deer Creek. Alex. P. Levering died near Fallston. Miss Clarrissa Stanley, daughter of J. W. Stanley, died in Delta. 6/4/1887 Mrs. Jemima Meads died at Jarrettsville. 6/5/1887 Mrs. Robert Proctor, in her 98th year, died near Cob Hill. 6/6/1887 Mrs. Mary Day, wife of Israel Day, died near Scarsborough, aged 89 years. 6/8/1887 Mr. Jacob Wann, living near the Hickory, severely injured by a fall. Mrs. Theresa Glasgow, wife of James Glasgow, formerly of Harford, died in Baltimore city. 6/10/1887 Daniel Lynch died near Fallston, in his 84th year. 6/14/1887 Charles Vail injured by a fall from a house which he was painting, at Forest Hill. 6/15/1887 Mr. Jacob Wann died at Hickory, in his 98th year. 6/17/1887 Miss Bertha Scarsborough severely injured by being thrown from a buggy. 6/22/1887 Mr. Josiah Furlong, formerly of Harford county, died in Baltimore aged 44 years. 6/23/1887 Mr. Samuel Miller, one of the oldest citizens of Harfors, died near Swan Creek, aged 80 years. 7/1/1887 Miss Drucilla Streett died near Highland Station. 7/2/1887 Mr. John D. Worthington appointed School Examiner as successor to Mr. Noble L. Mitchell, resigned. 7/3/1887 Mrs. Elizabeth Tydings died at her home, in Abingdon, in the 80th year of her age. 7/8/1887 Hon. Henry W. Archer died at his home near Bel Air. 7/13/1887 John Murphy, aged 18 years, instantly killed by the falling of a crane near Port Deposit. 7/25/1887 Miss Sallie Monks dies near the Hickory. 7/27/1887 Mr. Miles Crow died at Darlington, aged about 60 years. 7/29/1887 Mr. Harry Greenway, formerly of Harford, murdered at Jacksonville, Fla. 8/2/1887 Mrs. Margaret Vieschon died in Harve de Grace, in the 50th year of her age. 8/10/1887 Mr. William Silver, of Glenville, injured while unloading a wagon of stone. 8/12/1887 Mrs. Rebecca Kenly died at her home near Level. 8/15/1887 Mrs. Sarah Patterson, of Perrymans, died at Baltimore. Mr. Milton E. Smith appointed principal of Bel Air Graded School. 8/16/1887 Mr. Michael Lochary, aged 85 years, died near Priestford Bridge. 8/17/1887 Mrs. Laura Smith died at Darlington. Mrs. Sarah Ely died near Darlington. John Kyle died near Darlington. 8/18/1887 Mrs. Mary Norris died near Wilna. 8/20/1887 Warren Norris died near Prospect. 8/23/1887 John Crosby died from exposure, near Bel Air. 8/29/1887 John Hays had his left eye put out while repairing a fence on Mrs. BaltzellÕs farm, near Fallston. 8/31/1887 Miss Lucretia Moore died near Bel Air, aged 80 years. 9/2/1887 Mr. James Henderson, a native of Harford county, died at Towsontown. Mrs. Hannah Stephenson died at Rock Run. 9/3/1887 Mr. James Glasgow, formerly of Harford, died in Baltimore, aged 69 years. Mr. Henry Long died at Jarrettsville, aged 92 years. 9/4/1887 Mr. Isaac Botts died near Darlington. 9/7/1887 Mr. Joseph H. Carver died at Harve de Grace, in his 60th year. Collision of two cars at Harford Station B. and O. Railroad, in which James Bathgate and James Wragg were seriously injured. 9/9/1887 Mrs. Hannah Price, wife of Dr. Mordecai Price, died at Fallston. 9/10/1887 Geo. S. Richards, of Aberdeen, injured by falling from the top of a car. 9/11/1887 Mrs. Mary Smithson, wife of Thomas Smithson, died in the 59th year of her age. 9/15/1887 Mrs. Brophy, wife of Mr. Dennis Brophy, died at the Hickory. 9/16/1887 Mrs. Ellen Courtney died at Harve de Grace. 9/19/1887 Mrs. Ellen Healey died in Harve de Grace, aged 68 years. 9/22/1887 Mr. William Ashton, formerly of Forest Hill, died in Baltimore. 9/24/1887 Joel Abner Peart committed suicide at Perrymans by cutting his throat. He died at the Baltimore City Hospital. 9/25/1887 Geo. T. Clark, of Harve de Grace, died aged 65 years. 9/28/1887 Mrs. Randolph Lay, living near Perrymans, fatally injured by being run over by a locomotive. 10/1/1887 Miss Mabel Magness died near Emmorton, aged 18 years. 10/3/1887 Lewis T. Pyle died near Scarsborough. 10/13/1887 Mr. John McGeogh died near Bel Air. 10/15/1887 Mrs, Hoopman died at her home near Level. 10/18/1887 Bertha McAtee died at the residence of her grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. Joseph E. Bateman, in Bel Air. 10/24/1887 Mrs. Ida Heaps died at Mill Green. 10/26/1887 Mr. Clement E. Weber, an old resident of Harve de Grace, died in Philadelphia. 10/28/1887 Mr. James Martin died near Forest Hill. 10/31/1887 Miss Maggie Martin, sister of James Martin, died near Forest Hill. 11/2/1887 Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert died at Norrisville. 11/4/1887 Mrs. Richardson, wife of Robert C. Richardson, died at Churchville, aged 23 years. 11/6/1887 Mrs. Sarah Wilson died near Perrymans, aged 83 years. 11/10/1887 Mrs. Cornelia Preston, wife of James B. Preston, died near Emmorton. 11/15/1887 Mr. Thomas Hanway died at the residence of John G. Rouse, Bel Air. 11/19/1887 Mrs. Emma Griffin died near Aberdeen. 11/22/1887 Barn of David St. Clair, living near the Rocks, destroyed by fire. 12/1/1887 Pauline Stansbury, aged 6 years, burned to death near Clermont Mills. Mr. Chas. W. Hopkins died at Darlington, aged 71 years. 12/6/1887 Barrack burned on the property of Josiah Herrman, WinterÕs Run. 12/7/1887 Miss Sarah E. G. Pannell died at Creswell. 12/9/1887 Barrack burned near Abingdon, belonging to Mr. Wm. G. Hall. Mr. Alvin Rigdon died at Cambria Station. 12/13/1887 A canning house belonging to Mr. John Famous, near Mill Green, destroyed by fire. 12/14/1887 Dwelling house of Martin Purcell, Forest Hill, destroyed by fire.