Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: Stevenson, et al, Oct 1880 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Little, , Jul 2010 Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ ** Late Saturday evening, October 9, 1880, a train accident occurred at Twenty-eighth Street on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The following were among the victims of that accident. ** from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Monday, October 11, 1880 (page 1): The family of Mr James STEVENSON, merchandise broker, Liberty street, suffers a heavy bereavement in the death of Miss Mattie TAYLOR, sister of Mrs STEVENSON. She was in company with Mr Charles HETZEL and when the collision occurred, she had the presence of mind to break the sash along side of her and put her head outside the window to escape the steam. She was fearfully burned, however, by the scalding steam and water and in company with her cousin, Miss SIMCOX, was conveyed to the hospital. She was visited by friends early Sunday morning and was able to converse with them, but she died during the afternoon. Her cousin, Miss SIMCOX, who was accompanying her out to Edgewood to spend Sunday, was so shockingly burned that she died some hours before Miss TAYLOR. These young ladies were not only beautiful in person but amiable in disposition and most exemplary in their lives. Miss SIMCOX was to have been married in about six weeks. Still another victim belongs to Edgewood, a young man named Albert CRUMP, who was not at first considered dangerously injured. He continued on the train and walked home. Yesterday, however, his symptoms became alarming, and his physician says that he cannot recover. His father is a landscape gardener, and has had the misfortune to lose three boys by death within a few years. from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Tuesday, October 12, 1880 (page 4): Yesterday afternoon all that was mortal of Miss Jessie SIMCOX, daughter of Dr SIMCOX of the West End, was consigned to its last resting place. The funeral took place from her parents residence in the West End. The services were conducted by the Rev Mr DONOHOE and in the presence of many of the friends of the deceased who knew and admired her many loving qualities of heart and mind. from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Wednesday, October 13, 1880 (page 4): This afternoon the funeral of Miss Mattie TAYLOR will take place at the residence of her sister at Edgewood. Miss TAYLOR was a young lady just in the full bloom of youth and was beloved by all who knew her and her sudden taking off a ----- a pang in many a heart. The young lady was a daughter of the late Edward TAYLOR, an old resident of this city, who died some two years ago, and Sarah A TAYLOR, who resides with her son at 180 Webster avenue, this city. Miss TAYLOR has resided with her sister, who is the wife of Mr STEVENSON of Edgewood, since her marriage. In fact they were inseparable companions. Before marriage the two sisters were continually together - where one was the other also was, and after the marriage of one of the sisters they even then could not be separated, and they lived together. The death of her sister to Mrs STEVENSON is a terrible blow. from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated Saturday, October 16, 1880 (page 4): Albert CRUMP of Edgewood, a victim of the awful P R R disaster, expired at the residence of his parents yesterday morning. It was hoped that young CRUMP would survive his injuries but ( ) set in and did its fatal work. from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records: Jessie SIMCOX, age 17 years, single, died October 10, 1880; daughter of William M and Martha E SIMCOX; born in Pittsburgh; lived in Chartiers Township; burial in Chartiers Cemetery on October 11, 1880. Martha TAYLOR, age 24 years, single, died October 10, 1880; daughter of Edward and Sarah TAYLOR; born in Pittsburgh; lived in Edgewood; burial in Allegheny Cemetery on October 13, 1880. (The Allegheny Cemetery site notes a burial of Martha TAYLOR in Section 33, Lot 108.) According to the 1880 census, Albert CRUMP was the son of Edward and Emma CRUMP and approximately 15 years of age.