OBIT: James BURNSIDE, 1859, Bellefonte, Centre County, PA

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Death of Judge Burnside

  By a gentlemen from Bellefonte, we learn the particulars of a 
shocking accident which occurred in that place on Friday evening of 
last week, and which resulted in the death of Judge Burnside.  It 
appears that he was sitting at the door of his house, when his nephew, 
Harvey Mann, drove up in a buggy, with his mother, (a sister of Judge 
Burnside), who had come to pay them a visit.  The horse was new one, 
and after Mrs. Mann had got out, the Judge said to his nephew that he 
believed that he would get in and take a short drive with him.   He got 
in, and young Mann was about to following him, when he slipped, and 
touching the horse, started him.  The reins, which had been lying 
loose, fell, and the horse dashed rapidly down a steep stony street.  
He made a short turn at a corner at the foot of the hill, and threw the 
judge out.  He fell violently on his head.  The blood gushed from every 
feature, and when he was picked up he was dying.  In two or three 
minutes from the time he left his door, full of life, health and 
spirits, he was carried back a bleeding corpse.  The event created the 
greatest grief and consternation in the town, where the Judge was 
sincerely beloved.
  
Tyrone Star, Tyrone, Pa., July 9, 1859 p. 2
  
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