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From: "Victoria Hospodar Valentine" <>
Subject: [PA-SW-OBITS] DEWAR, ELLWOOD Mar. 5, 1904 McDonald PA Outlook
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 06:05:19 -0500

DEWAR, ELLWOOD



R. R. DEWAR, principal of the schools at this place, was called
to Monongahela Wednesday by the death of his father. The deceased was 82
years old and was the first supervisor of the P. V. & C. R. R.



With $13 in the pockets of his ____, the body of John ELLWOOD,
aged ___, of Boston, Mass. who commenced work November 13, on section 13 of
the Wabash railroad and who roomed ___ No. 13 at the camp was found _____
o'clock Tuesday morning in a sl... fodder in a field near Hickory. Hoodooed
many think by the unlucky number 13, ELLWOOD, in the bitter cold weather of
last December, lay down in the ____ shock to take a sleep and froze to death
as he lay. The body which had rep... unseen for weeks was badly decomposed
and the features were unrecognizable. It was only by chance that the
unfortunate man's body was found Tuesday ___ Frank CALDWELL went to the
field ___ haul the fodder to the barn. In opening up one shock he was
horrified to ____ the body of a man inside. The cloth... frozen to the
ground and the body had to be pried loose. The man's face had been eaten
bare of flesh by field mice and the ends of his fingers and toes had been
gnawed by the same animals. The features were totally unrecognizable and
for a time it was not known who the man was.

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