Newspaper: Train Accident- Mrs. William Hoy killed by train while going to church 1903, Westmoreland Co., PA
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  The Westmoreland Democrat 1903
  KILLED WHILE GOING TO CHURCH
  
  Sunday morning, while Mrs. William Hoy, wife of Sewickley township farmer, was
  walking on the B & O railroad tracks, going to West Newton, to attend services
  at the Presbyterian Church, she was run down by an empty engine and instantly
  killed. Deceased was 55 years of age, universally esteems, and formerly lived
  in the vicinity of Adamsburge and Murrysville.
  
  Additional Comments:
  The Westmoreland Democrat, Greensburg, PA
  Jan 21, 1903
  
  Hannah Jane Patton married William H Hoy on March 16, 1875. She was the
  daughter of James and Ruth Anna Riley Patton.
  
  She is buried in West Newton Cemetery beside her husband.
  
  Family stories relate that the mother and daughters frequently used the
  railroad as a short cut to get to West Newton Presbyterian Church from their
  dairy farm.  On this occasion, the mother was taking fresh doughnuts to church
  and went ahead of her family.  They came upon the terrible accident just after
  it happened.
  
  Rev. J.C. Meloy was the pastor who held the service and burial.