William Osborne Minerd

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• Individual Picture Notes
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    William Osborne Minerd

• Birth Notes
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    William Osborne Minerd was born on Nov. 15, 1866 at Bridgeport, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA, the son of Eli and Mary Ann (Baer) Minerd
    
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    Birth date  9 Mar 1866  
    Birth place  E Huntington, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States
    

• Death Notes
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    On Jan. 3, 1906, the Connellsville Daily Courier carried this tragic story about his grisly death:
    
    BRAKEMAN IS KILLED.
    William O. Minerd Met With Fatal Accident
    in the Local Yards at an Early Hour This Morning.
    
    William Osborne Minerd of Bridgeport, but for the past seventeen years a Baltimore & Ohio flagman, was killed in the [Connellsville] yards at an early hour this morning.  Chas. Rhomes, a yard employe came across lying along the tracks this morning.  He was then in a dying condition and all that he could say to Rhomes was that he slipped.  He was too weak to give an account of the accident.  The hospital ambulance was hastily summoned, and he was removed to the hospital, but his injuries were fatal and he  died shortly after arriving there.  He was terribly cut and bruised. The unfortunate man is a son of Eli Minerd of Bridgeport.  He was born in that town 37 years ago and began railroading at an early age, having worked on all the different branches of the road....
    
    ..... Further investigation, said the Greensburg Daily Tribune, showed William slipped on a tie while making a coupling, "and fell under the train, the wheels of four cars passing over him at the hip."
    
    He is buried beside his parents at the Alverton Cemetery near Mt. Pleasant.
    
    
    
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    At the age of 74, just after the start of the new year in 1906, Eli suffered the tragic and grisly death of his railroader son William, who was killed in a railroad accident in Connellsville. Eli had to travel to Connellsville and to endure the horrific task of identifying the mangled corpse. Compounding the horror was that the son had recently let his life insurance lapse. We cannot imagine the agony.
    
    
    
    

• General Notes
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    He never married