JOHN CONLIN

John Conlin died on 12 Sept. 1920 and was buried 20 Sept. 1920.
Daughter Viola Sharp (nee Conlin) explained to a family member thus
.......John Conlin wanted to head to Ireland to see his home land after 
all the years, but before he left he went to St. Louis to see some 
friends.
Upon arriving in St. Louis he must have felt ill and bought a ticket 
back to Cuba. He must have got sick on the train as he got off at Pacific
[a small town on the train line about 60 miles east of Cuba and about 
25 miles west of downtown St. Louis]. He sat down on a bench near the 
railroad. When he got up, he left his coat on the bench and walked along 
side the railroad tracks for a ways. John sat down again and upon getting 
up, he left his hat behind. He walked some more and sat down, but this time 
he never got up again. Several days later a workman on the train discovered 
John's coat. Nothing was ever thought of it until the next day when John's 
hat was found. The hat had a band around it which contained the ticket to 
Cuba. A later search found John's body. He was buried in a potter's grave. 
Upon notification of the family, his body was moved to the Catholic Cemetery 
in Cuba. He tried to make it home but he never made it. John is buried next 
to his wife, Loretta (nee Moss)Conlin and near two of his children, James 
and Kathleen. A small upright black marble headstone marks his final resting 
spot.


PACIFIC TRANSCRIPT: The body of a dead man was found Wednesday morning under 
the Mo. P. culvert a half mile east of our city by some of the grading crew 
of the Frisco. Marshall Joe Mohrback was notified and he notified Coroner Denny 
of St. Louis Co. The coroner came up and got the body soon after noon. No clue 
to his identity was found and no cause of death established. The body had 
evidently been there several days. There were $24 in his pockets so robbery 
was not a motive for killing.


THE SULLIVAN NEWS
Thursday Sept. 23, 1920, page 1

Also in: PACIFIC TRANSCRIPT
Friday Sept. 17, 1920, page 1

Washington Observer: The body of a man found September 15 in a creek under a 
railroad trestle, a half mile east of Pacific, was identified last Thursday 
by John Conlin Jr., of Cuba, Mo. as that of his father, John Conlin, 70 years 
old, also of Cuba. The son was located in Cuba by a bank deposit slip found 
in the father's coat which had been discovered by section hands on the railroad 
tracks. He stated that his father had gone to St. Louis on a business trip a 
few days previous to the finding of his body. 


THE SULLIVAN NEWS
Thursday Oct. 14, 1920, page 1

PACIFIC, MO.
The workmen on the Frisco double track found the body of a dead man in a culvert
about one mile east of Pacific, Wednesday of last week. Indications were that 
he had been dead about one week. The top of his head was crushed and it is the 
opinion of authorities that he had been murdered.
THE CRAWFORD MIRROR
Thursday Sept. 23, 1920  page 1