1894 WB Record Almanac, Deaths in 1893 The following information is posted for the sole purpose of family research within the Yahoo Group, The Court House Gang. It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc. without prior written permission and guidelines from the group owner, to ensure that proper credit is given to the group and all of our volunteers that helped with this project. Wilkes-Barre Record Almanac 1893 January 1. Mrs. Levi Barnes of Forty Fort dies of burns Jacob Gelsleichter loses fourth child from diphtheria. 2. Martin Marion drowned at Pittston Death Mrs. Daniel W. Bennett 3. James Johns of Luzerne Vorough killed at Winton Death Mrs. Charles LaBarr 4. Deaths Mrs Bernard Ittig Susan C. Rinehimer Robert Hedian 5. Paul Scroski dies from injuries at Mountain Top 6. John Roscoe smothered by coal. Deaths George O'Rourke Mrs. Liem Mrs. Tigue 7. Deaths William H. Norris Mrs. Patrick Costello 8. Deaths John Umbewust Philip Nachbar 9. Mrs Sophia Umbewust 11. Mrs. Elwood King dies in Wilkes-Barre on her bridal tour 13. Death Robert Rutlege 14. Mrs. Miner Swallow dies Kingston George Bute and Joseph Peeler killed at Forty-Fort mine 15. D.M. Jones'mother dies at Kingston Deaths E.H. Kittle Mrs. T.M. Phillips 16. Daniel Davis found dead at Solomon's Gap 17. John Cleary killed in Red Ash Alan H. Dickson loses his son Hugh and is himself prostrated 18. Clarence M. Elliott dies of injuries on railroad 19. Samuel B. Daley, aged 101, dies at Sutton's Creek Death John J. Thomas 20. Deaths Mrs. Eliza Hanks Agnes Helfrich Mrs. Samuel Williams 21. Deaths Allan H. Dickson Mrs. Rev. C. Kuehu 22. Death Mrs. Michael Andes 23. William Mooney killed at Avoca 26. Death M. William H. Nicholson 27. William P. Johnson, an old settler, dead at Dallas Death Mrs. Patrick Irwin 28. William Francis killed at Kingston in No. 1 shaft Death Terrence McManus 29. Death Miss Elizabeth Phelps 31. Wife of Rev. Conrad Kuelin dies at her sons wedding in Hazelton February 1. Death Nicholas Hoewer 2. J. Britner killed at the Hollenback David R. Beynon killed in the west Charles Shoots killed in Duryea mine Deaths Mrs. Peter Helfrich Martin Cawley 3. Deaths Thomas Trembath Mrs. Anna Gebhardt 4. James Hurley dies on way to Danville asylum 6. Joen Dowbiski killed on railroad at Fairview 7. A.E. Moores sucidies at Philadelphia 8. Owen Henry Jones killed at Sugar Notch John Gorman killed on the new W.-B.&E. railroad 10. Michael O'Malley killed and eight injured in gravel train wreck on Valley Death Mrs. Helen Campbell 11. John Connors killed in Larksville mine 12. Deaths Dr. Edward D. Williams Dennis Fahringer 13. Death Hannah W. Dow 14. Deaths Mrs. Frances Baker Owen Griffiths 15. James Mulcahey killed in mines at Pittston 16. Death Mrs. Mary Helfrich 17. Anson Watkins, four years, killed by electric car at Edwardsville 19. Death Mrs. Hiram Smith 20. Wm. L. Stewart drops dead at Nanticoke Thomas B. Edwards killed at Hollenback Death Wm. L. Stewart 21. Death Anthony Durkin 22. Death Mrs. Reuben Downing 23. Death T.S. Hillard 25. Enoch Thomas killed at Warrior Run 26. Death Mrs. Amanda Baer 27. James Lyons killed in Jersey Central wreck 28. Henry Shultz killed by wagon being struck by a train Recorder Russell's wife dies at Edwardsville March 2. Death James H. Hilbert 3. William Brown killed and several injured by boiler explosion near Pittston Death Mrs. Lewis Rhode 5.Death Mrs. Philo Baldwin 6. Michael Sillivan dies at hospital of broken back Death John Mackin 8. William Reese killed in the Pettebone Corning mill of Laflin powder works explodes and Edward Jones killed 10. Death Mrs. Patrick O'Neil 11. Thomas Griffiths killed in Alden mine Terrence McCarthy has his head cut off by train 13. Deaths Asa Blodgett Miss Sadie Flynn Capt. Casper B. Rosengrant 14. Thomas Brady of Luzerne Borough dies from mine injuries Death Charles Dougherty 15. Cyrus Hale of West Pittston killed on railroad Deaths John McKenna Thomas Robertson Beno J. Yehn 16. B. Fred Dilley buried at Kingston 17. George P. Richards killed by cars at Plymouth 19. A.B. Schooley suicides by jumping into river 20. Death Mrs. John D. Rimple 21. Deaths Mrs. Almira D. Buckalew Mrs. David Cavanaugh 23. Michael Jugrus killed in mine at Harwood Death Jester E. Straup 26. Joseph Burshonski suicides at Luzerne Borough Death Mrs. John Flannery 27. James Gilmartin murdered at Pittston by James Mclaughlin Wife of Rev. D.W. Coxe dies at Alden Swan Paulson killed in the Prospect 29. Death Charles McAllister 30. Death Mrs. Catharine Walsh 31. Child of Henry Shotwell fatally burned April 1. A.B. Tyrrell dies at Kingston 5. Anthony Musche killed at Buttonwood mine Wm. Donaldson killed at Nanticoke Deaths Morris L. Cohen Mrs. James Davis 7. Dorrance mine on fire and Supt. Wm. Samuels killed Death Wm. Samuels 8. Death Mrs. Amanda Butler 9. Wm. J. Eustice dies of injuries in the mines 10. William George killed and several badly burned by explosion in Black Diamond Mine 11. Death Mrs. Wm. R. Evans 12. Deaths Mrs. Patrick Boyle Mrs. Elizabeth Kearns 13. Death Mrs. William Ridall 14. Deaths Maggie Conrad Peter Behee 15. William M. Lewis killed in Plymouth mine Death L.C. Brastow 16. Stanley Jacobowski murdered at Plymouth ty Mike Polovinski Death J. W. Compton 17. Peter Carey killed in the Bliss mine 20. Patrick Cawley killed on railroad at Pittston 21. Mrs. Harry Waddell dies at Kingston Death Lewis Dickenson 22. Andrew Golespie killed on railroad near White Haven 23. Death Col. Benjamin F. Stark 24. William Wellington dies of mine injuries at Luzerne Borough 25. John Summerville killed in Pittston mines 26. John Farrell killed by falling down shaft at Plymouth Deaths Miss Winnie conahan John Foorsberg John L. Shoemaker John Sheeran Mrs. Bertha Reick 27. Alice Harrlson fatally burned by lamp 28. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien's child drowned at Mountain Top 29. Death Frederick Ahlborn 30. A.J. Brown killed by falling from Ashley breaker May 1. Daniel Richards killed at the Red Ash Death Mrs. A.E. Hart 2. Deaths Mrs. L.D. Shelard Mrs. Margaret Rogan Mrs. Margaret McAvoy 3. Michael Geary drops dead in the street 7. Death Mrs. John Rieder 9. Death Asaiah McNutt 12. Dr. Peter C. Shive dies at Plains 13. Death Owen Lynch 14. Arthur St. Clair Baker of Brooklyn suicides on Public square Death Edward W. Roderick Mamie Greenly Mrs. Anna Baur Mrs. Ann Sheerin 17. Iorworth Reese killed by gas in the Pettebone 18. Thomas J. Hughes of Sugar Notch killed in mine Isaac Rosenwig and Harris Blank hanged at Tunkhannock 19. Christopher Unbewust fatally hurt in South Wilke-Barre 22. Frants Tunny fatally shot at Pittston 23.William Yoe of Parsons drowned while boating 25. James Bottom of Luzerne Borough and Robert Jones of Dorranceton killed in the mines 27. David Jones killed at Mill Hallow mine 29. Wife of Rev. W.R. Cochrane of Centermoreland falls dead 30. Death Mrs. Susan Craig 31. Death Thomas Long June 1. Death Elizabeth Baker 3. Martin Kregan killed by rock at Nanticoke Death William Carey 7. Michael Gardner killed at Pittston on rail 8. George Pierson drowned in the river 9. James Lake of Wyoming suicides George Fox killed at Plymouth Child of Nathan Ross of Luzerne Borough killed by runaway 10. Death Darby Morrow 13. News of Mrs. Judge Dana's death in France 17. Horace l. Stebbins has his head cut off at Ashley 19. Arthur Phillips drowned at Plymouth 20. Richard Wright killed at D&H No. 2 21. Death of Mrs. John D. Hoyt at Kingston 22. Death Mrs. Mary O'Brien 25. Death Michael Swartz 26. Elijah Albertson drops dead at Fairmount 28. Death Mrs. Patrick Rooney 29. Deaths Harry E. Hyde Mrs. Eve Enterline July 1. Michael Misho killed on Central road 2. Death Theodore Goss 3. John Dowd killed near White Haven Death Mrs. Sarah Jenkins 5. Nicholas Zucca found dead at Nanticoke 6. George Rice crushed to death at Wanamie Patrick F. Flanagan found dead in a creek at Ashley Death Mrs. L.O. Paine 8. William Gruver killed on the rail at Rockport John A. Moran killed at Coxton Anthony Carden killed at Pittston Frank Micklebach killed at Wilkes-Barre, all on the railroad Death Mrs. Susan Gelsleichter 9. Death W.H. McCarty 10. Death Mrs. Bertha Rosenau 11. Uranus Snyder dies of injuries on rail 12. John Patton killed by train at Kingston 13.Widow of Captain Rice dies at Dallas 16. John McAndrew drowned at Pittston James Brandt of Nanticoke killed by falling down a shaft Death Mrs. Peter Carrol 19. Mrs. Margaret Sinclair of Dorranceton, aged 88, dies 20. Death Mrs. Herman H. Pryor 22. Death William Zirnhelt 23. William Scegan murdered in a row at Wyoming Geo. W. Lauferweiler drowned while bathing 24. Mikw Sinoski murdered at Duryea Death Lillian F. Scott 25. Death William R. Fraley 26. Deaths Jacob Kingeter Edward Parrish Mrs. Rhys David 27. Frank Guanna killed at Exeter by refrigerator Death Mrs. Catharine Payden 28. Charles Chamberlain fatally shoots Paul Baumgardner at Shickshinny 31. Alexander Russell fatally hurt by street car David Begnon drowned at Nanticoke in river August 1. Death Mrs. Richard D.Evans 3. Mrs. Ellen Bridge found dead in bed 4. Death Mrs. Diantha Johnson Henry 5. Richard Northrup killed by train 6. James Hicks of Plymouth drowned at Huntsville Death Michael M. O'Brien 7. Death Joseph Cryderman 8. Death Miss Nellie Phillips 9. Death Catharine G. Wells 10. Michael Kielty killed in the Murray 14. Mary Abrahams killed on the Ashley planes Death Dennis Danielson 15. Thos. Reese killed in Nanticoke mine 16. Patrick Galiagher killed falling down a shaft at Pittston Death James Davis 17. Deaths Mrs. Col. S.H. Sturdevant Thomas Reilly 18. Charles N. Miner of Wyoming county suicides at 80 Death Mrs. Margaret Evans 21. Death Isaac C. Smith 22. Death John S. Nettles 23. Neal Brislin killed in Alden Mine 25. Jas. Grigans drowned in the river 28. Charles Fairchild killed at Avondale on railroad Harry Barth of Pittston falls on a knife and severs juggler vein Thomas Jones killed at Barnum shaft Death Mrs. William Dickover 30. Death Mrs. Susan Alexander 31. John Monofski fatally shot at picnic September 1. Patrick Broderick killed in Plymouth Elias Thomas killed at pitston on railroad Death Miss Emma J. Driesbach 2. John Hammerson drowned at Mocanaqua 3. Death Mrs. John E. Griffith 5. Jas. A. Kelly fatally injured by street car 7. George Koffa and James Hillbouse, Jr. killed near Hazelton Death Mrs. L.W. Tiffany 8. Steve Kellmer killed in Luzerne Borough mine 9. Stephen Chitoski killed by electric car at Brookside Deaths Moses Gottfried Mrs. Mary Addison Hon. L.D. Shoemaker 10. Deaths Elizabeth Balliet Miss Rose Thomas 11. Death James E. Keller 12. Charles Galster killed in Nanticoke Death Mrs. Sarah Williams 14. Mrs. Mary A. Bull dies at West Pittston 18. William Boyd of Wanamie dead Andrew Oderson dies from bicycle injuries 19. Enoch Grablin and John Matuska killed in the mines 21. Death Lewis Evans 22. Patrick Feely killed by train 23. Death Jos. W. Patten 24. Death Mrs. M.W.Coyle (Jeanette McDonald Coyle) 26. Funeral of J.W. Patten A.P. Pavaling suicides 27. Henry Reed killed by train at Plymouth Deaths Mrs. Elizabeth Birkbeck Lewis R. Williams 28. Death William Jones October 1. Adam pipple found dead at West Pittston 2. Jacob Kastrin of Plymouth dies from burns 3. Elmer H. Ponteus of Kingston killed at Tamaqua Albert S. Potter of Kingston murdered in Arizona 5. John Brown suicides at West Pittston Little Fanny Finkelstein killed by a wagon Death Thomas Rogers 6. Max Wolf killed by falling from new city building Mrs. Catherine Swetland dies at Wyoming aged 94 7. Carrie Salsburg of Plymouth fatally injured by streetcar 8. Henry Mooney of Luzerne Borough killed by electric wire Death Feit Eisner 9. Howard Brader suicides at the Bristol House 14. Edward Billheimer of Conyngham killed 16. Mrs. Louis Evans of Nanticoke killed by train Death Mary Sawers 19. Death Mrs. Maria Thomas 20. Charles Nuss dies of mine injuries 21. John Kososki squeezed to death at Wyoming Thomas E. Nathans killed at Edwardsville Andrew Syposh shoots his wife at Broderick 23. John Wilburne murders John Johnson at Hanover Clyde Brobst killed on his father's ice wagon Death Susan Hedin 24. Edward Meyers of Parsons dies from burns 26. John Gavin of Pittston killed in the Hoyt shaft 27. Death Peter J. Bates 30. James clark killed at Pittston Andrew Koseck killed in the Staton William Jones of Plymouth killed in mines 31. James Patten killed in Pittston mine November 1. Death James Flynn 4. Sarah Egan burned to death at Warrior Run 5. Deaths Joseph Feldman in Philadelphia Allan P. Robertson Mrs. Melissa Hurst 6. William Foster killed in Alden Mine 7. Jacob Whalen asphyixated 8. Thomas Charlton dies suddenly at Alden George W. Kitchen of Hunlock found dead in bed 9. Death George J. Goulden 10. John Madul killed by falling down shaft Charles Watkins killed by cars at Blackman 11. Death of Dr. A.P. Meylet of California at Dr. Urqaharts residence 13. George McMullin of West Pittston killed by gun 14. Death John Biershoff William H. Stevens of Plymouth suicides 16. Deaths Mrs. J. W. Peck Frank Dodson 17. Deaths Samuel Bunn John F. Johnson 18. Daughter of Mr. & Mrs Jyhn Moore at Maltby tortured to death by witchcraft Deaths Mary McDowell Nellie Barrett Mrs. Lydia Wildover H.S. Hallock 19. Deaths Barney Reick Miss Jennie Curran 20. Death Jacob Griebel 22. Charles B. Jackson dies of lockjaw 23. Death Mrs. E.A. Goulden 24. Mrs. Patrick Madden burned to death at Pittston 26. Death Mrs. John Butler 27. Owen McManaman killed on railroad at Ashley 28. Thomas Hefferon killed at Alden Deaths Mrs. James Harkins Mrs. John Dininger John L. Barnes 30. Mrs. Mary Evans of Ashley dies of injuries December 1893 3. Death Dr. Robert H. Tubbs of Kingston 6. Deaths Frank Bressler Ruth Lendrum Frank Boner 7. Deaths Mrs. Ann O'Donnell John Kropp Peter Heck 8. Death Grace Polen 9. Thos. Ballet drowned while bathing at Plymouth James Gurley dies at Hospital of poison 10. Deaths Burgess Davis of Edwardsville David Perkins of Wyoming Mrs. Ida Riemensnyder Mrs. Patrick Barrett 11. Deaths Charles Barner drowned Enoch Morgan drowned Patrick English killed in mine at Luzerne Miss Eliza Gillespie John Tracy Mrs. A.J. Allabach 13. Miss Minnie Spade suicides at Lehman Josiah T. Staples killed in the South Wilkes-Barre Deaths Nicholas Ritz Mrs. Conlon 14. Samuel Ray (colored) drowned Harry Sink killed in Hollenback elevator shaft Deaths James A. Hickey Mrs. Mary Ayres Philip W. Bansler Mrs. Patrick Connell Patrick McLaughlin 15. Isaac Wallace of Wanamie found dead 16. John Codack killed in the woodward 17. Michael Dougherty of Miners Mills killed on Jersey Central Death Mrs E.C. Wasser 18. Joseph Zehr murdered at Hazelton Deaths Julius Meyer Miss Cassie Milz 19. Thomas Cleary of Plymouth, dies from exposure 20. Patrick Harrison killed on D.&H. Richard Clark and two Polanders killed in Avoca mine Baby of Mrs. Joseph Patcavitch dies in court Deaths Mrs. Jane V. Thomas John Kirk Patrick Harrison 22. Joseph Seibuski killed in Baltimore Deaths Mrs. A.D. Reese Mrs. McGee 23. James Nally and Charles Rowan killed in Pittston shaft 24. Deaths Mrs. Patrick McGarvey Mrs. Ann B. Thomas Mrs. Chloe S. Root 25. Fred Dennis killed by D.L.&W. train at Luzerne Borough