Husband of Content Moore
Children: William, Mary "Polly", Martha, Dency, Catherine, Anna, Ruth, John, Joseph, Robert, Gilbert and Livingston Wilkinson
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POUGHKEEPSIE, June 22
Departed this transitory life, on Monday, the 14th inst. about one o'clock P.M. Mr. John Wilkinson of the Town of Beekman, aged about 60 years. The circumstances of his death were sadly melancholy. He was travelling in a waggon, with his son and another young gentleman. At the fatal hour, they arrived at the bridge which crosses the Housatonic, near the village of New Milford; the young gentlemen alighted and removed a few rails* which impeded their entrance, and walked on before the horses, which had proceeded on the bridge but a few feet, when it gave way, and, with both waggon and horses, as also the deceased, who sitting in the waggon, were precipitated into the river beneath, a distance of about twelve feet--Mr. Wilkinson was instantaneously killed. The bridge being geometrically built, it is conjectured that the timbers, pendant above, must have struck him in their fall, as his temples and forehead were much crushed. The two young men were on the part that fell at the moment it gave way, but made their escape to a pier in the middle of the bridge, before it completely left them, where they remained to behold a scene so surprisingly awful. On Tuesday the remains of the deceased were brought to his late residence, in Beekmantown, and interred amidst the lamentations of his family and friends, who sorely felt the loss of one who has zealously fulfilled the duties of an endearing husband, an indulgent parent, a liberal friend and an obliging neighbor. The situation of Mrs. Wilkinson, the disconsolate widow, is really deserving commisseration, when we add to her present calamity the loss of a father and two brethren, who have made their exits by accidental & almost instantaneous deaths.
*...men of the town had, on examination, a short time before, pronounced the bridge unsafe, and, as a beacon to the unwary traveller had ordered some rails put on at the end of the bridge . This circumstance was misconstrued by the deceased, and his companions, who passed on unsuspicious of the sorrowful catastrophe which awaited them.
(The Vermont Journal, Windsor, Vermont, 29 Jun 1802, p 3)
Children: William, Mary "Polly", Martha, Dency, Catherine, Anna, Ruth, John, Joseph, Robert, Gilbert and Livingston Wilkinson
The following courtesy of JanisG, Find a Grave Contributor #47652496:
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 22
Departed this transitory life, on Monday, the 14th inst. about one o'clock P.M. Mr. John Wilkinson of the Town of Beekman, aged about 60 years. The circumstances of his death were sadly melancholy. He was travelling in a waggon, with his son and another young gentleman. At the fatal hour, they arrived at the bridge which crosses the Housatonic, near the village of New Milford; the young gentlemen alighted and removed a few rails* which impeded their entrance, and walked on before the horses, which had proceeded on the bridge but a few feet, when it gave way, and, with both waggon and horses, as also the deceased, who sitting in the waggon, were precipitated into the river beneath, a distance of about twelve feet--Mr. Wilkinson was instantaneously killed. The bridge being geometrically built, it is conjectured that the timbers, pendant above, must have struck him in their fall, as his temples and forehead were much crushed. The two young men were on the part that fell at the moment it gave way, but made their escape to a pier in the middle of the bridge, before it completely left them, where they remained to behold a scene so surprisingly awful. On Tuesday the remains of the deceased were brought to his late residence, in Beekmantown, and interred amidst the lamentations of his family and friends, who sorely felt the loss of one who has zealously fulfilled the duties of an endearing husband, an indulgent parent, a liberal friend and an obliging neighbor. The situation of Mrs. Wilkinson, the disconsolate widow, is really deserving commisseration, when we add to her present calamity the loss of a father and two brethren, who have made their exits by accidental & almost instantaneous deaths.
*...men of the town had, on examination, a short time before, pronounced the bridge unsafe, and, as a beacon to the unwary traveller had ordered some rails put on at the end of the bridge . This circumstance was misconstrued by the deceased, and his companions, who passed on unsuspicious of the sorrowful catastrophe which awaited them.
(The Vermont Journal, Windsor, Vermont, 29 Jun 1802, p 3)
Husband of Content Moore
Children: William, Mary "Polly", Martha, Dency, Catherine, Anna, Ruth, John, Joseph, Robert, Gilbert and Livingston Wilkinson
The following courtesy of JanisG, Find a Grave Contributor #47652496:
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 22
Departed this transitory life, on Monday, the 14th inst. about one o'clock P.M. Mr. John Wilkinson of the Town of Beekman, aged about 60 years. The circumstances of his death were sadly melancholy. He was travelling in a waggon, with his son and another young gentleman. At the fatal hour, they arrived at the bridge which crosses the Housatonic, near the village of New Milford; the young gentlemen alighted and removed a few rails* which impeded their entrance, and walked on before the horses, which had proceeded on the bridge but a few feet, when it gave way, and, with both waggon and horses, as also the deceased, who sitting in the waggon, were precipitated into the river beneath, a distance of about twelve feet--Mr. Wilkinson was instantaneously killed. The bridge being geometrically built, it is conjectured that the timbers, pendant above, must have struck him in their fall, as his temples and forehead were much crushed. The two young men were on the part that fell at the moment it gave way, but made their escape to a pier in the middle of the bridge, before it completely left them, where they remained to behold a scene so surprisingly awful. On Tuesday the remains of the deceased were brought to his late residence, in Beekmantown, and interred amidst the lamentations of his family and friends, who sorely felt the loss of one who has zealously fulfilled the duties of an endearing husband, an indulgent parent, a liberal friend and an obliging neighbor. The situation of Mrs. Wilkinson, the disconsolate widow, is really deserving commisseration, when we add to her present calamity the loss of a father and two brethren, who have made their exits by accidental & almost instantaneous deaths.
*...men of the town had, on examination, a short time before, pronounced the bridge unsafe, and, as a beacon to the unwary traveller had ordered some rails put on at the end of the bridge . This circumstance was misconstrued by the deceased, and his companions, who passed on unsuspicious of the sorrowful catastrophe which awaited them.
(The Vermont Journal, Windsor, Vermont, 29 Jun 1802, p 3)
Children: William, Mary "Polly", Martha, Dency, Catherine, Anna, Ruth, John, Joseph, Robert, Gilbert and Livingston Wilkinson
The following courtesy of JanisG, Find a Grave Contributor #47652496:
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 22
Departed this transitory life, on Monday, the 14th inst. about one o'clock P.M. Mr. John Wilkinson of the Town of Beekman, aged about 60 years. The circumstances of his death were sadly melancholy. He was travelling in a waggon, with his son and another young gentleman. At the fatal hour, they arrived at the bridge which crosses the Housatonic, near the village of New Milford; the young gentlemen alighted and removed a few rails* which impeded their entrance, and walked on before the horses, which had proceeded on the bridge but a few feet, when it gave way, and, with both waggon and horses, as also the deceased, who sitting in the waggon, were precipitated into the river beneath, a distance of about twelve feet--Mr. Wilkinson was instantaneously killed. The bridge being geometrically built, it is conjectured that the timbers, pendant above, must have struck him in their fall, as his temples and forehead were much crushed. The two young men were on the part that fell at the moment it gave way, but made their escape to a pier in the middle of the bridge, before it completely left them, where they remained to behold a scene so surprisingly awful. On Tuesday the remains of the deceased were brought to his late residence, in Beekmantown, and interred amidst the lamentations of his family and friends, who sorely felt the loss of one who has zealously fulfilled the duties of an endearing husband, an indulgent parent, a liberal friend and an obliging neighbor. The situation of Mrs. Wilkinson, the disconsolate widow, is really deserving commisseration, when we add to her present calamity the loss of a father and two brethren, who have made their exits by accidental & almost instantaneous deaths.
*...men of the town had, on examination, a short time before, pronounced the bridge unsafe, and, as a beacon to the unwary traveller had ordered some rails put on at the end of the bridge . This circumstance was misconstrued by the deceased, and his companions, who passed on unsuspicious of the sorrowful catastrophe which awaited them.
(The Vermont Journal, Windsor, Vermont, 29 Jun 1802, p 3)
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died in 1802, aged 60 y. 25 d.
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