OBIT: Jesse SMITH, 1915, Northampton Township, Somerset County, PA

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Smith, Jesse

KILLED NEAR GLENCOE, Jesse Smith of Northampton Township Run Down by Special 
Train at Glencoe Station Monday Morning. Jesse Smith, a well-known farmer of 
Northampton Township, was instantly killed at the station at Glencoe Monday 
morning, being run down by the special train carrying veterans to Washington. 
Mr. Smith had come to the station with a number of others and his step-daughter 
and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clites who had been married on Sunday at the 
Smith home and who were leaving for a visit to Hyndman. The special train was 
running on the time of No. 48 which always stops at Glencoe. Mr. Smith and 
another man started to cross the tracks thinking that the train would stop as 
usual. The friend with him seeing their mistake jumped quickly back barely 
escaping death but Mr. Smith was caught and badly mangled, death being 
instantaneous. The body was taken to the home a mile and a half away from 
Glencoe. In the absence of Rev. A. S. Kresge, Rev. D. W. Michael of this place 
conducted the funeral. Interment was made at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery. Mr. Smith is 
survived by his second wife and ten children and 22 grandchildren. He was aged 
66 years.

Meyersdale Commercial, Sept. 30, 1915