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Washington County Pennsylvania History and Families
Deaths and Obituaries of People with ties to Washington County PA
 
Pre-1900s Undertaker's Horse-drawn Wagon, and early 1900s
automobile hearses.
All McDonald Newspaper Items from Victoria Hospodar Valentine,
researcher and transcriber.
Unless noted, all other Newspaper Items from Judith
Florian, researcher, transcriber, webmaster.
Obituary of unnamed 3-year old son of Jacob Bane 1822
1822
Article from The Reporter newspaper, Washington
Co., Pa., Mar. 10, 1822, page unknown:
[NOTE: In this newspaper and date, no capitalization was used on Miss or
Mr.] [This was not listed in the "Death" column on the same
page.]
[NOTE: covers all obits on this date.]
Accident - On Tuesday last, a child, 3 years old of mr. Jacob
Bane, of Amwell township, was instantly killed, by a horizontal or tramp
wheel; the child had got up on the wheel and was carried round until it
got between the ream of the wheel and the side wall, when its head was
dreadfully bruised and broken.
From History of Greene County, Pa: Containing an Outline of the State from 1682, Until the Formation of Washington County in 1781. History During 15 Years of Union. The Virginia and New State Controversy--running of Mason's and Dixon's Line--whiskey Insurrection--history of Churches, Families, Judges, Senators, Assembly-men, Etc., Etc (Google eBook).
Hanna, William Rev. Publisher unidentified: 1882.
Under scarcity of mills, Bottom of page 31=32 :
"The first effort towards milling in these western counties was the horse mill, where
every customer furnished his own power, which was a team of either horses or oxen.
These were sometimes hitched to a sweep by which they pulled and drove the machinery
somewhat on the principle of a threshing machine, only the wheels were all of wood.
Sometimes the team was placed on a large tramp wheel which lay almost in a horizontal
position, the team being attached to a post and started to pull instead of the stationary post moving, the wheel began to revolve and started the machinery. These
mills were unlike the fabled gods; they did not grind fine if the did grind very
slowly. In consequence of this slowness they often got behind time, so much so, that often a
dozen, sometimes a score, of teams with their owners were waiting for their turn to
come. The miller would be worn out being compelled to attend both day and night. It sometimes happened,
however, that some trusty man came in who had some little knowledge of the simple
machinery and who would have to wait six or eight hours for his turn to come. This man
was installed miller pro tem, his pay being that he could grind his own grain toll free.
One of the indispensible attachments of a horse mill was to put up large enough shelters for
the waiting teams, for if a man went away he forfeited his turn. I distinctly recollect seeing
two of these horse mills in the state of Ohio in 1828. One of them was pulled around with a
sweep, the other was driven with a tread wheel. I never expected to see another of these mills,
and was surprised, on my arrival on Ten Mile [Creek] in 1856, to find one of the old fashioned
mills still in running order on the farm of old Ephraim Cooper, about eight miles from
the borough of Washington [Pa]." [Improvement of these mills were water driven mills.]
Obituaries
and Death Notices for People from or near McDonald PA
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