Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stuart, Adalia (Mathews) (Mrs. Charles) September 20, 1915
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - September 24, 1915
           MRS. CHAS. STUART KILLED BY TRAIN

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 WAS STRUCK BY 4:17 "FLYER", MONDAY AFTERNOON, 

WHILE DRIVNG CATTLE ACROSS CROSSING NEAR HER  

        HOME. BODY WAS BADLY MANGLED

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   Monday evening while driving cattle across the railroad track just south of her
home here, Mrs. Charles 
Stuart was struck by the 4:17 train and instantly killed. Mrs. Stewart with her
mother, Mrs. Wm. Mathews had 
let the cattle out of the pasture south of the railroad track and Mrs. Stuart
started on, leaving her mother to 
close the gate. A large willow tree in the pasture partly shuts off the view of the
track and it is thought that 
Mrs. Stuart did not see the rapidly approaching train until the cattle were on the
track. She succeeded in 
getting them across with but the narrowest margin, but was herself struck and
instantly killed.

   Mrs. Mathews did not see the accident. She saw the cattle standing at the gate in
front of the Mathew home 
and hurried to let then in, thinking that her daughter had stopped at her own home.

   Though she crossed the track within a few rods of the mangled body of her
daughter, Mrs. Mathews knew 
nothing of the tragedy until several minutes afterwards. Friends who witnessed the
accident told her of it as 
she admitted the cattle into the barnyard.

   A number of persons who witnessed the tragedy rushed to the scene, but nothing
could be done for Mrs. 
Stuart. It was found that her legs had been severed just below the hips and that the
lower part of her body 
was badly mangled. Her face and neck, however, were barely scratched.

   Funeral services for Mrs. Stuart were held at the Methodist church, Wednesday,
ten o'clock. Refv Thomas 
Laity delivering the sermon. the Royal Neighbor society, of which Mrs. Stuart was a
member, also held 
services over the body at the home and at the grave.

   Mrs. Stuart was forty-four years of age and has lived in this community all of
her life. During this time she 
has always been known as a lady of the best character and of a sweet dispositon. she
leaves to mourn her 
loss her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Mathews, a brother, Riley Mathews, her
husband, Chas. Stuart and two 
daughters Viva and Thelma.

   Friends and relatives from out of town who attended the funeral were; Riley
Mathews, Toledo, Ohio; Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward Priest, Morley; Mr. and Mrs. Henry VanSickle, Barryton; Mr. and Ms. Foyd
Haight, Mulliken; Mrs. 
Mary Kreider, Everett; John Sellen, Hart; Mrs. Nora Norcutt, Clarksville and Mr. and
Mrs. B. Raleigh of near 
Clarksville.

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