Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Kerwin, Robert, 02 Dec 1873

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from The Pittsburgh Daily Gazette dated Wednesday, December 3, 1873 (page 4):
 
STRUCK BY A LOCOMOTIVE
 
Last evening about half past seven o'clock a man named Robert KERWIN
was run over by engine No. --, Allegheny Valley Railroad, on Railroad
street between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth, and instantly killed.
The remains of KERWIN were taken to the Twelfth ward station home, and
Coroner W McCallin notified. Deceased was a watchman in the employ of
the Keystone Bridge Company. He was forty-five years of age, and
leaves a wife and family residing on Twenty-seventh street. An
inquest will be held this morning.
 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
Robert KERWIN, aged 45 years, married, watchman, died December 2,
1873, killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Twelfth Ward; born in
Ireland; lived on Twenty-seventh Street; burial in St Mary's Cemetery
on December 4, 1873.
 
Census records and city directories indicate that wife is Ellen with
children Michael and Mary.