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History of and Other Families (o_f) from
The City and County of Washington Pennsylvania
Enhance your genealogy research about families in Little Washington, Washington County PA
using newspaper articles, birth, death, marriage, notices, obituaries (often with cemeteries
named), probates, deeds, surname finds, family trees, family histories, reunions and other information.
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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.
Article about killing of John M. Nelson 1878
son of a farmer in Queen Anne County Maryland
1878
Article from the The Reporter newspaper,
Washington Co., Pa., Oct. 18, 1879, page unknown:
"Shot in __ Theatre - Baltimore, October 15? - John M. Nelson,
the medical student, shot last night at the Front Street Theatre, died
shortly after 3 o'clock this morning. He was [23 ?] years old, son of a
farmer in Queen Anne county. Nelson, after attending college yesterday,
went last night with a brother-in-law to witness the performance at the
theatre. They were seated in the front row of seats in the orchestra
circle, and at the close of the performance as the curtain fell upon the
tableaux?, there was a discharge of musketry. Young Nelson was gazing
silently upon the scene, and simultaneously with the report of the guns,
he clasped his hand to his forehead, exclaiming, "I am shot,"
and sank down unconscious. A large sized minnie ball had crushed through
his skull, entering the forehead just above the right eye.
Obituaries
and Death Notices for People from or near McDonald PA
This page was last edited Friday, July 07, 2023
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