George Washington Cruit Jr. is the son of George Washington Cruit and Sarah Elizabeth Young. Husband of Mary E. Webb. Known children: Odes Cruit, George Harmon Cruit and Earnest Pearl Cruit.
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Death Notice and Obituary for George Washington Cruit Jr. from the Lancaster Gazette dated Saturday 14 May 1887, page 3
ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Washington Cruit's Skull Crushed
by falling from a Hand Car.
Washington Cruit, a son of Geo. W. Cruit, Esq., of Hocking township, was killed threefourths of a mile above Hooker Tuesday evening.
It seems that young Cruit and some others were hauling a number of steel rails on a hand car; they were going at a rapid rate and in turning the curve the car became over-balanced by the weight of the railling and left the track. Wash. was thrown violently backward, the back of his head striking a steel rail. He was taken to his home at Carroll, where he died four hours later, his skull having been mashed by the fall.
He was about thirty-three or four, married, and left a wife and two childen.
The funeral services were held at Mt. Zion Thursday afternoon.
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Death Notice and Obituary for George Washington Cruit Jr. from the Lancaster Gazette dated Saturday 14 May 1887, page 3
ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Washington Cruit's Skull Crushed
by falling from a Hand Car.
Washington Cruit, a son of Geo. W. Cruit, Esq., of Hocking township, was killed threefourths of a mile above Hooker Tuesday evening.
It seems that young Cruit and some others were hauling a number of steel rails on a hand car; they were going at a rapid rate and in turning the curve the car became over-balanced by the weight of the railling and left the track. Wash. was thrown violently backward, the back of his head striking a steel rail. He was taken to his home at Carroll, where he died four hours later, his skull having been mashed by the fall.
He was about thirty-three or four, married, and left a wife and two childen.
The funeral services were held at Mt. Zion Thursday afternoon.
George Washington Cruit Jr. is the son of George Washington Cruit and Sarah Elizabeth Young. Husband of Mary E. Webb. Known children: Odes Cruit, George Harmon Cruit and Earnest Pearl Cruit.
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Death Notice and Obituary for George Washington Cruit Jr. from the Lancaster Gazette dated Saturday 14 May 1887, page 3
ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Washington Cruit's Skull Crushed
by falling from a Hand Car.
Washington Cruit, a son of Geo. W. Cruit, Esq., of Hocking township, was killed threefourths of a mile above Hooker Tuesday evening.
It seems that young Cruit and some others were hauling a number of steel rails on a hand car; they were going at a rapid rate and in turning the curve the car became over-balanced by the weight of the railling and left the track. Wash. was thrown violently backward, the back of his head striking a steel rail. He was taken to his home at Carroll, where he died four hours later, his skull having been mashed by the fall.
He was about thirty-three or four, married, and left a wife and two childen.
The funeral services were held at Mt. Zion Thursday afternoon.
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Death Notice and Obituary for George Washington Cruit Jr. from the Lancaster Gazette dated Saturday 14 May 1887, page 3
ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Washington Cruit's Skull Crushed
by falling from a Hand Car.
Washington Cruit, a son of Geo. W. Cruit, Esq., of Hocking township, was killed threefourths of a mile above Hooker Tuesday evening.
It seems that young Cruit and some others were hauling a number of steel rails on a hand car; they were going at a rapid rate and in turning the curve the car became over-balanced by the weight of the railling and left the track. Wash. was thrown violently backward, the back of his head striking a steel rail. He was taken to his home at Carroll, where he died four hours later, his skull having been mashed by the fall.
He was about thirty-three or four, married, and left a wife and two childen.
The funeral services were held at Mt. Zion Thursday afternoon.
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