Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Halsted, David 1899
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Ionia Daily Standard, 18 Aug 1899

Wednesday afternoon as the east bound passenger train on the Grand Trunk was 
rounding the curve just east of the Warfield crossing between Muir and Pewamo 
the engineer saw a man walking on the track ahead.  The whistle sounded, but 
the man was deaf and only attempted to leave the track when he felt the jar of 
the train.  He was struck in the back and side of the head, and hurled into the 
ditch.  The train at once stopped and the dead man was picked up.  Nothing by 
which he could be identified was found, so he was taken to Pewamo where he was 
at once identified as David Halstead.  It was a deplorable affair, but it is 
believed that no blame attaches to the railway, as Mr. Halstead was deaf and 
had been warned not to use the track as a thoroughfare.  An inquest will be 
held at Pewamo today.

Halstead lived alone at Muir, and has a brother at same place, also a sister, 
Mrs. Tucker, in Lyons.  The funeral takes place today at the Lyons M.E. church, 
conducted by Rev. W.E. Ogden.


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