Obit : Thomas HOWER Pottsville Republican for January 22,1889, Schuylkill Co, PA
  
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  " A Soldier's Sad Death" 
  
  Thomas Hower, a corporal in Company F., 8th Regiment, Girardville, was 
  fatally injured a short distance above New Ringgold Saturday evening, dying 
  at the home of his mother, in Girardville, about 9 o'clock.  He was about 22 
  years of age [b.July 22,1867] and leaves a wife and one child at his home in 
  Gordon.  [wife - Mary Emma (Dando) Hower, daughter of Thomas Dando and 
  Elizabeth Price   and her child Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hower]  Hower was one of a 
  detail of four, who had charge of the effects of the company, which were in a 
  common box or freight car attached to the same train as were the passenger 
  cars containing the Girardville, Mahanoy City and Tamaqua companies.  The 
  train had passed New Ringgold on the Little Schuylkill Railroad, when Hower 
  leaned out of the door and was struck on the back of the head by the side of 
  the bridge and felled from the car.  Corporal Connor tried to signal the 
  engineer to stop, but without success.  
  He then climbed on top of the car, but it was not till he jumped from the 
  train and discharged his rifle that he succeeded in attracting attention.  By 
  this time the train had proceeded six miles nearly all of which distance it 
  was backed, and a detail of twelve, including Hower's brother, found him 
  unconscious at the bridge, with the back part of his head crushed and an ear 
  cut off.   All that could be was done and he was tenderly removed to his 
  mother's home, but death was inexorable.  His brother, C.G.Hower, had his 
  head crushed in a somewhat similar manner a year and two months ago by a 
  runaway team at Lost Creek.  The sad accident cast a gloom over Co. F and the 
  Eighth Regiment, which only time can efface.  The bereaved widow and 
  relatives have the sympathy of all in this their hour of affliction.  The 
  funeral will take place at Girardville, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  
  
  The interment will be with military honors, and all the members of the 8th 
  Regiment who can conveniently attend are invited.  Company F. is commanded by 
  Captain John G. Johnson, and H.H.Danks is First Lieutenant.    This is the 
  first member lost by this company since its organization, December 15th, 
  1876.  The deceased's jaw-bone was also broken.  A correspondent, a member of 
  the company, objects to the heading in one of the Philadelphia papers of 
  yesterday, reading " A Careless Guardsman".
  
  [I believe his parents were John and Lucetta Hower of Girardville]
  
  
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  Tuesday, July 23, 1889
  
  Funeral of Corporal Hower
  
  A detail of H Company, 8th Regiment, N.G.P., left for Girardville at ten 
  o'clock this morning in Ed. Heilner's four-in-hand tally-ho to attend the 
  funeral of the late Corporal Thos. Hower, of Co. F. 8th Regiment, who was 
  fatally injured by being struck with a bridge above New Ringgold on the 
  Little Schuylkill Railroad, Saturday evening while the troops were returning 
  from Mt. Gretna.  The members of the detail are Sergeant John F. Beck, 
  Corporal John G. Ash, and Privates Britton, Strouse, Wilson, Miller, Mason, 
  Wagner, Burnett, Glassmire, Fisher, Clare, Boynton, Reith and Knowles.  A few 
  members of Co. F. were included.  The funeral was largely attended, 
  delegations of the different companies of the 8th regiment being present.