Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Edwards, et al, Oct 1880

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** Late Saturday evening, October 9, 1880, there was a train accident
at Twenty-eighth Street on the Pennsylvania Railroad. These were two
of the victims of that accident. **
 
 
from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Monday, October 11, 1880 (page 1):
 
Milton H EDWARDS was the son of Hon. Matthew EDWARDS, and resided with
his father at the East End. He was sixteen years of age, and still in
attendance at school. He was a bright promising boy. He died
yesterday of his injuries - chiefly the result of scalding.
 
(...)
 
Mr BOLLINGER was about thirty-five years old and unmarried. He was a
carpenter by trade, and resided in the East End. He was on his way
home from work when he was killed. A pocket rule was found in his
pocket. He was sitting in the car with his dinner basket in his hands
and some tools. He died almost instantly, it is thought. Parts of
his body were literally cooked by the steam.
 
 
from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Monday, October 11, 1880 (page 4):
 
EDWARDS - Milton H EDWARDS, son of Matthew EDWARDS, aged 17th years.
Funeral from his parent's residence, Lincoln avenue, Twenty-first
ward, on Tuesday, October 12th, 1880, at 10 o'clock am.
 
from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Tuesday, October 12, 1880
(page 4):
 
This morning at ten o'clock, Milton H EDWARDS, son of Hon. Matthew
EDWARDS, who was one of the victims, will be buried. The funeral will
take place from his parents' residence on Lincoln avenue in the East
End. Mr EDWARDS was a very promising young man and his funeral will
be attended by scores of friends, among whom will be quite a number of
his class mates at the Central High School.
 
from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Wednesday, October 13,
1880 (page 4):
 
The funeral of Milton H EDWARDS, the youthful son of Hon Matthew
EDWARDS, of the Twenty-first ward, East End, also took place yesterday
morning. A special car containing the pupils and classmates of the
deceased, attending the Pittsburgh High School, went out on the
Wilkinsburg accommodation train for the purpose of attending the
funeral. The pall bearers were selected from young EDWARDS late class
mates, and the exercises were of the most touching nature. The body
followed by a large cortege was interred in the Allegheny cemetery.
 
 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
David BOLLINGER, age 30 years, married, carpenter, died October 10,
1880; born in Allegheny County; lived in 21st Ward; burial in a
Lincoln Avenue cemetery on October 11, 1880. (Norm Meinert's site
notes that a David BOLLINGER with this approx death date is buried in
St Peters Lutheran Cemetery. 1880 Census notes wife's name is Anna.)
 
Milton Howard EDWARDS, age 17 years, single, student, died October 10,
1880; son of Matthew and Mary EDWARDS; born in Pittsburgh; lived on
Lincoln Avenue; burial in Allegheny Cemetery on October 12, 1880.
(The Allegheny Cemetery site notes a burial of Milton EDWARDS in
Section 9, Lot 78.)