Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: BLACK, Emma J., 08 Mar 1896

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from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Monday, March 9, 1896 (page 2):
 
A CROWDED MORGUE
 
(. . . )
Of the number only one is unknown. That one is a woman. Out at
Braddock possibly hundreds of people know her, and perhaps some
friends are wondering why she does not come home. All day yesterday,
her body lay in the morgue, and no one called to see it, and there
were no inquiries concerning her or any missing woman.
 
(. . .)
A young woman whose name is said to be Mrs PRICE, was killed by a
Pennsylvania railroad train east of Bessemer station about noon
yesterday in attempting to cross the track. She was about 20 years
old and dressed in good clothes, as if she had been returning from
church. She had a new celluloid purse, with 16 cents in it. Her body
is at the morgue unidentified.
 
 
from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Tuesday, March 10, 1896 (page 4):
 
The Woman Identified
 
The unknown woman killed at Bessemer Sunday was identified yesterday
as Emma BLACK, who lived in the rear of 27 Lombard street. She was on
her way to visit friends when she was killed. It is said she was to
have been married next week.
 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
Emma J BLACK, age 22 years, single, died March 8, 1896, instantly
killed on railroad; daughter of M A and S A BLACK, he of PA, she of
OH; born in Clinton PA; lived at 27 Lombard Street; burial in Clinton
PA on March 11, 1896.
 
A review of the 1880 and 1900 census suggests that she may be the
daughter of Michael and Sydney BLACK.