Cambria County PA Archives News.....John Kennedy - Killed by a Log November 4, 1871
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The Cambria Freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) November 4, 1871
On Friday morning of last week, Mr. John Kennedy, of Washington township, this
county, came to a violent death under the following painful circumstances: With the
aid of his son, a lad of fourteen years, be was endeavoring to build a log fence,
and while assisting a yoke of oxen to roll a heavy log against a hill, the weight
overpowered him and a crowbar which he was using at the time, struck him on the leg,
prostrating him to the ground and inflicting a very severe wound, which doubtless
prevented his escape from the log, which rolled over his body and rested on his
neck, producing death almost immediately. His little boy ran to the house of a
neighbor to give the alarm, and parties at once repaired to the scene of the
accident, only, however, to find the lifeless remains of the unfortunate man in the
position we have stated. Mr. Kennedy was a widower, about 60 years of age, and the
father of two small children, a boy and girl, with whom alone he kept house. He was
a quiet, inoffensive and strictly honest man, and his sudden and melancholy death is
a source of deep regret to all who knew him. His remains were interred in the
Catholic graveyard at Wilmore on Sunday. 

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