Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Amelia Reagan SAVAGE, 1900
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Diana Quinones audianaq@msn.com 

AMELIA REAGAN SAVAGE, wife of FRANK N SAVAGE - 1900:
Headline of Weekly Advocate, Pottstown 3/17/1900:
'Two women swiftly hauled into eternity'.
Mrs. Samuel Hunsburger and Mrs. Frank Savage are struck by an engine.
While driving across the tracks of the Pennsylvania RR, the team which the women 
were driving was struck by a fast freight No 421. about 20 minutes after 2 
o'clock.  Both women were instantly killed.  The horse was also killed and the 
buggy smashed to bits.
Mrs. Hunsburger left her home in Royersford to visit with friends in East 
Coventry,  She was previously a neighbor  on a farm about one mile below 
Kenilworth adjoining the Savage farm and she and Mrs. Savage had always been 
close friends.  She spent part of the week with Mrs. Elwood Leopold and a few 
days ago went to visit Mrs. Savage, the unfortunate women were thrown from a 
distance of about 30 feet, and were instantly killed.  The wreckage was strewn 
over the tracks for a distance of 160 feet.
Both women were well know in Parkerford and had a large circle of friends.
Mrs. Hunsberger was the widow of Samuel Hunsberger who during his lifetime was a 
prominent farmer in East Coventry.
Mrs. Amelia Savage was 35 years of age and was the wife of Frank Savage, a well 
known farmer of E Coventry.
She was the daughter of George W Reagan, who was killed in an accident at the 
Keystone Agricultural Works in 10/1878.  Her stepmother is now a resident of 
Chicago.
Mrs. Savage when a young girl was raised in the family of James K Ellis of 
Frick's Locks.  One son, David S, survives.
There are numerous relations in Pottstown among them S R Ellis and  P W Reagan.