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From: "Isabelle Rood" <>
Subject: Re: Hazeltines and Naramores
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 17:15:33 -0800


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From: Edward Sinker <>
To: Isabelle Rood <>
Cc: Pie 246 <>; Larry & Terry Heismann
<>; <>
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: Hazeltines and Naramores

Hi Edward, I have decided to copy the whole newspaper article and send it
on to you with a copy to Crawford Roots. That way everyone interested can
read it and you might send a copy to Doreen Heaton in Scotland, Karen Lashin
and Terry Heismann.Sooooooo-here goes, just as it was printed.

THE COCHRANTON HORROR
-----------
SEARCHING FOR THE DROWNED--THE BODY OF
ARTHUR HAZELTINE FOUND-A WHOLE TOWN IN
MOURNING.

The sad drowning at the Carlton bridge of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hazeltine
and little Nellie Naramore, all of Cochranton, has cast a gloom over the
that town and the whole surrounding country. A representative of the
Tribune visited the scene of the disaster yesterday afternoon and gathered
the following facts with reference to this accident: It had been arranged
between the families of Mr. Hazeltine of Cochranton and Mr. Hood, of Utica,
for the latter to come up to Cochranton on July 4 and they would together
take a trip down the creek to Utica. Mr. and Mrs. Hood came up on the noon
train and were met at the station by Mr. and Mrs. Hazeltine. After a short
visit at the Hazeltine house they started for the creek, accompanied by
Nellie Naramore, a lovely little miss of 13 years, who was a great favorite
with the Hazeltine family.Some remarks were made about the creek being high,
but Mr. Hazeltine being an expert boatman and accustomed to the water, had
no fears and the party started down the stream with light hearts and buoyant
spirits.The boat in which the party took passage was a flat skiff, with
pointed bows. Everything went smoothly until the Carlton bridge, which spans
French Creek about 4 miles below Cochranton,was reached. From Mr. Hood, and
parties who were on the bridge and saw the accident, it was learned that a
tree nearly 75 feet long was lodged abainst the middle pier of the
bridge.The roots of the tree were plainly visible sticking up out of the
water, and some of the body of the tree was also in sight. The boatman
thought they were give the tree a wide berth, as there was ample room, but
the great length was unknown to them, and as the boat was coming down at a
rapid rate, the stream at this point being very rapid, it struck the tree
and upset throwing the whole party into the water.
The truth of what happened after the accident will perhaps never be known.
Mr Hood, who cannot swim, seems to have caught hold of the boat and his wife
at the same time. He persists in saying that the boat turned over several
times, but this seems like an impossibility. He was enabled to cling to the
boat by getting his fingers through a small hole which was broken throgh it
when it struck the log, and with his wife clinging to him and the boat they
drifted down the stream about one and one half miles, to a small island
where the boat lodged in som willows, which enabled them to get to solid
land.
A. Noxon, the baggage master on the branch, saw them as the afternoon train
passed by, and and when the train reached Utica he reported it there, and
parties on a hand car went up and rescued them. They were taken on the car
to their home in Utica.
Mr Hood states that when he and wife were about 100 rods below the bridge,
and clinging to the boat. he saw the heads of Mr. and Mrs. Hazeltin near the
south bank of the creek, close together and just above the water. They soon
disappeared from view.
Thomas Vincent and some little girls who were on the bridge and saw the
accident corroborate this story. Mr. Hood also says he saw little Miss
Naramore near the north bank, but the parties on the bridge say they did not
see the little girl after she went into the water.---------------

I AM EDITING THE REST, BECAUSE IT IS A VERY LONG STORY, AND THE HOODS WERE
THE ONLY ONE WHO SURVIVED AFTER A LONG AND ARDUOUS RESCUE ATTEMPT BY THE
WHOLE COUNTRYSIDE. SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT AS A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL MYSELF, AT
THE TIME I READ IT, I IDENTIFIED WITH LITTLE NELLIE, AND STILL FEEL SAD FOR
HER EACH TIME I REREAD IT. I FOUND OUT THIS MORNING FROM A NOTE FROM PAT
VEDNER THAT THIS HAPPENED JULY 4, 1892. THANKS TO PAT! PLEASE UNDERSTAND
THAT THIS IS NOT A PART OF MY FAMILY, AND THE WHOLE QUESTION BEGAN WHEN MY
NEW CYBER FRIEND, SANDY GASTON, ASKED IF ANYONE KNEW THESE PEOPLE, WHO ARE
PART OF HIS.
Billie Rood

.

>Hi Billie
>
>I am copying in Allison Franks whom you have met already, Karen
>Lashin from CA and Terry Heismann from FL. Karen and Terry are
>both very interested in Hazeltines. I have also sent a separate
>message to Doreen Heaton in Scotland who is interested in
>Naramore.
>
>Karen and Terry - I saw a messge from Billie on the Crawford
>County, Pennsylvania list with the subject Naramores and
>Hazeltines. I sent Billie a message and her reply is below. If
>you think that you know who Arthur Hazeltine is then please
>let me know.
>
>Billie - I am sorry that there is such a crowd now, I hope you
> don't mind my passing your message around. Thank you
> very much for your reply and the additional information.
> I would very much like to either have a copy of the article
> on the accident or if it is not too long, a transciption via
> email. If you do decide to post a copy then I will reimburse
> you for your expenses. I was just to the bank yesterday
> getting some dollars to reimburse someone in Kansas City
> who has sent me information on my Coates relatives there.
>
> Do you think that your mother and grandmother know of the
> Hazeltines or do you think that they kept the clipping because
> of the nature of the event?
>
> It would appear that keeping newspaper clippings was a
> common thing a few years back. My ggrandfathers brother
> William Henry Andrews and his wife Mary Adelaide Frey lived
> in Titusville and Meadville and Mary kept a scrapbook too
> which has ended up in the archives of the University of
> Wyoming. I had them send me photocopies and they include
> clippings of people she knew, the Jamestown flood and of
> famous people.
>
> What surnames are you interested in?
>
>Many thanks, bye for now,
>
> Edward Coates Sinker - email:
> Church Lea - GOONS: #2820
> Bosbury - Shropshire Family History Society: #3473
> Herefordshire HR8 1PX
> U. K................Karen and Terry, read on:
>
>>Hi Edward ----and Allison- This has been a most interesting day for me,
>>because of both of you writing about this subject. I guess neither of you
>>heard the beginning of all this..Well, Sandy Gaston wrote and asked about
>>the names, Hazeltine and Naramore. I was astounded because I have a
>>scrapbook kept by my mother and grandmother, which dates back to the 1870s
>>and includes relatives and friends of theirs going back to the early
1800s.
>>Trying to make the story short, I loved that book from childhood, and
>>standing out in my memory was a poem and clipping about a terrible Fourth
of
>>July boating accident, where Mr and Mrs Arthur Hazeltine of Cochranton, a
>>young 13 year old girl named Nellie Naramore, and friends Mr. and Mrs.
Hood
>>of Utica took a boat ride down French Creek, ending in disaster and death
>>for the Hazeltines and Nellie. The poem was called A Fatal Fourth, a very
>>dramatic account of the whole episode and calling her Little Nellie
>>Naramore. The clipping and poem had no date so I don't know the time
frame,
>>but it was published in the local paper.I wonder if CCGS would be able to
>>find out more about it. Coincidences like these are what make genealogy
on
>>the Web so interesting. I have just sent Sandy Gaston copies of these
things
>>and can do the same for both of you if you like. Edward's address is on
his
>>letter, so I need yours, Allison! Good luck to both of you! Billie Rood,
>>(grand daughter of Mary Brawley Patton)
>>.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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