Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Monks, James 1879
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The Ionia Standard, Thursday, February 20, 1879

James Monk while crossing the railroad near Sheridan on Monday with a team 
attached to a load of logs, was struck by the engine of the upward bound 
passenger train and instantly killed.  The sleigh was scattered into a 
thousand pieces, but the horses, fortunately, escaped without injury.  The 
front of the locomotive was badly smashed, and it is now in the shops here 
undergoing repairs.

Another Publication:  The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, February 21, 1879

Jas. Monks, in the employ of the Wager Lumber Co., was instantly killed at a 
railroad crossing, near Sheridan, on Monday night.  He was drawing logs, and 
being deaf did not notice the approach of the evening passenger train from the 
south, until too late.  The train struck the fore part of the sled, knocking 
the logs through the air like so many pipe-stems, some of them striking the 
ground 150 feet from the place of collision, and throwing Mr. Monks some 
distance.  

Mr. Monks was an old and respected citizen of this county, having resided in 
Keene, near Saranac, since 1837, engaged in farming.  He was 70 years of age, 
and leaves a large family.  He had been at work in the woods only about three 
weeks previous to the time of the accident.



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