Juniata County PA Archives News.....Denning, George – Accident September 13, 1860
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The Altoona Tribune. (Altoona, Pa.), September 13, 1860 September 13, 1860
On Thursday morning last, Mr. George Denning, a freight conductor on the Penn’a. R.
R., met with an accident which resulted in his death in less than 24 hours
thereafter. According to information he was either thrown off or fell from the
bumper of a car, near Thompsontown station, and falling upon the track the wheels of
a car passed over his legs breaking one and badly mutilating the other, besides
severely bruising his person internally and externally. He was taken to the
residence of his father in Harrisburg, where he died at 12 o’clock the following
night. 
From the Harrisburg Telegraph of Friday last we clip the following: The deceased had
for some time been betrothed to an estimable young lady of this city, Miss Gray, and
both looked forward to a speedy and happy union. When it was ascertained that Mr.
Denning could not possibly survive, at the mutual request of him and his betrothed,
and with the consent of the parents of both, they were married, Rev. Mr. Carson
performing the solemn and impressive ceremony by the bedside of the dying man. The
bridegroom passed from altar to the tomb, and the devoted bride of an hour changed
her wedding garments for the habiliments of mourning. The bride of yesterday is the
widow of today! In the midst of her grief, however, there is sweet consolation in
the thought of a reunion with the loved one hereafter in a world “where partings are
no more.” 

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