Obit of John CURRAN, Jr (b.1887 d.1920) Wabasha Co., MN ======================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Cathy Alber Submitted: June 2002 ========================================================================= Obit John Curran, Jr. The Plainview News, Friday, August 27, 1920 pages 1 & 10. Young Farmer Dies Of Injuries In Bad Accident John Curran, Jr., While Moving Threshing Outfit on Farm Last Week is Badly Crushed Causing Death Caught Between Two Machines Injured Man Rushed to Wabasha Hospital Where Everything Was Done to Save His Life But To No Avail One of the most deplorable accidents which has occurred in this vicinity for some time and which caused the death of one of Wabasha county's promising young men, was that which befell John P Curran, 33 years old son of Mr. And Mrs. John Curran, Sr., of Highland township, on Saturday morning. While working with a threshing crew on the Curran farm about four miles north of the city the young man received terrible internal injures which caused his death the same day. The crew of which he was a member had just moved the threshing outfit to the farm and at about 10:30 while setting the threshing machine with the aid of a tractor, which Curran was operating, the accident took place, which snuffed out the life of the young man. In some unaccountable manner, while reversing the tractor for the purpose of uncoupling it from the thresher, the heavy engine backed into the separator with such force that Curran was unable to free himself before he was caught between the two machines and his body terribly crushed. For nearly forty-five minutes he was held in this position, as his co-workers were unable to release the machines before that time, and as he suffered much pain after being released it was noted that he was internally injured and was immediately rushed to St Elizabeth Hospital at Wabasha where physicians worked over him for several hours. But his injuries proved to be of so serious a nature that the young man died at 8 o'clock that night. The sad accident and death of this young man cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood and left the little home in Highland fatherless. John Paulus Curran was born on July 1887, in Cooks Valley and then a young boy moved with his parents to a harm in Highland township. Here he attended school for a number of years and then took up farming, working for his father and others for a number of years. On September 30, 1914 he was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Holland at Kellogg and three children were born to this union. A few years ago Mr. Curran purchased a farm of his own in Highland where he resided and was making fine progress up to the time of his death. Deceased was a promising young farmer and an ambitious worker. During his short stay on the present farm he had made many improvements and had made a comfortable home for his little family when death over took his little family when death overtook him unexpectedly. He was one of the county's prominent young men and had many friends who greatly sympathize with the bereaved relatives in the sad hour. Deceased leaves to mourn his untimely death his wife and three children, Eleanor, Edward and Arvilla, his parents, Mr. And Mrs. John Curran, four brothers, Terrence and Emerson of Manitoba, Canada, Patrick P. of Little Valley, Frank at home and 3 sisters, Mrs. McBride and Mrs. Frank Lydon of Millville and Miss Nora at home. Three sisters and one brother preceded him in death. Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday at 9:30 at the St Joachim church in this city, Rev D J Lavery officiating and the remains taken to St Peter and Paul church at Conception where high mass was said. Interment was made in the family lot in the Conception cemetery.