OBIT: Adam ROUGH, 1876, Maria Forge, Blair County, PA

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FATAL AND MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT 

  It is our painful duty to record the sad death, by accident, of Mr. 
Adam Rough, at Lower Maria Forge, on Saturday last. In the evening of 
that day, between four and five o'clock, he walked from his house, a 
short distance, to the breast of the dam, and sat down on one of the 
cross beams of the shoot, his feet resting on the crossing board, and 
his back toward the dam. He sat there awhile, eating an apple and was 
heard singing. He was called to supper, and replied that he would be 
there in a short time. In a few minutes thereafter he was observed by 
Mrs. Miller, a lady residing some seventy-five yards from the place of 
the accident, to fall backwards into the shoot, and another lady heard 
the splash in the water. The alarm was given, and the neighbors 
hastened to the spot, but he could not be seen, the water in the shoot 
being about ten feet deep. They raised the flood gate, and the body was 
forced through by the current, when it was recovered at the further 
edge of the pool. Life was extinct. The body never rose after falling 
into the water.
  The body had upon it a bruise on the lower part of the back of the 
head, the neck was dislocated, and a bruise below the eye, and on the 
lower part of the face. Mr. Rough's wife was confined on Thursday 
night, and as he had lost much sleep recently, some think he fell into 
a dose, lost his balance, and fell backwards, his head striking the 
heavy beam in his rear, or the planks at the side of the shoot, 
dislocating his neck, and that he was dead before he reached the water. 
Since being in the army Mr. Rough was troubled with rush of blood to 
the head, and he may have had a stroke of apoplexy. Esquire Wm. McGraw 
held an inquest on the body, the jury arriving at the above facts.
  Mr. Rough was aged about 45 years, and left a wife in confinement, 
and eight children, most of them quite young. He was a member of the 
Methodist Church and of the Odd Fellows and Masons, and was a highly 
respectable citizen, and his sad death has cast a gloom over the whole 
community. He was buried on Monday afternoon at the old graveyard at 
Spang's, with the rights of the Odd Fellows, an immense concourse of 
people attending the funeral. Mr. Rough was managing the farm at Lower 
Maria, and on yesterday, Tuesday, was to have left for New Jersey, to 
manage an iron works there. May heaven protect the widow and 
fatherless.  Peace to his memory.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, August 16, 1876