Warner, New Hampshire Accidents
1784-1879
Ebenezer Sargent,
father of Dea. James,
was killed at the present
Willaby Colby
place, by falling down a flight of stairs.
A child of Isaac French
was smothered in bed.
Mr. and Mrs. French lived near the
Gould road and Bartlett’s brook. They were not
overstocked with intelligence. A young child of
theirs, which was well at bedtime, was dead in
the morning. On hearing of this sudden death,
the neighbors came in and inquired how long the
child had been sick, and the father said,—” It
went to bed as well as ever ‘t was in the world,
but when it waked up ‘t was dead’s a hammer!”
“Yes,” said his amiable spouse, “and you was the
instirni,qator of it, for you rolled over and
squshed it to death!”
Paine Davis, son of Francis, was killed by a
falling tree about 1790.
David Stevens,
whose home was either on Waldron’s hill, or in
the Badger neighborhood, was killed in rolling a
large boulder down a precipice, between the old
Gilmore and Putney
farms.
Asa Harriman
was killed by a falling tree March 9, 1794.
Jonathan Watson,
of Joppa, son of Dea.
Parmenas, and father of
Capt Cyrus, was
thrown from the tongue under the wheel of a
loaded cart and killed, Sept. 4, 1820.
Asa Sargent,
son of Benjamin Sargent,
senior, of Tory Hill, was killed by a fall in
the barn.
Dummer Pattee
was thrown from a wagon loaded with
furniture, and instantly killed, on the plain
near Mrs. Pearson’s,
about the year 1833.
Mrs. Stewart,
wife of Capt. John
Stewart, was thrown from a wagon and
killed, Sept. 24, 1834.
Imri Whitcomb,
son of John,
was killed in sledding wood, in the neighborhood
of 1845.
John Fisk
fell from a saw-mill on Stevens brook, and was
killed. He left a family of sons and daughters,
one of the latter being the wife of
Gov. Pillsbury,
of Minnesota.
Elliot C. Badger
fell down a flight of stairs, and was
instantly killed.
Mrs. Frederick Eaton
lost her life by being thrown from a wagon near
Ela’s bridge, about 1860.
Dea. Frederick Eaton was a brother
to Dr. Jacob,
now of Harvard, Mass., to
Rev. Dr. Eaton, of Palmyra, N. Y.,
and to John Eaton,
late of Sutton, who was the father of
Gen. John, Lucius,
Frederick, Charles, and perhaps
others.
A child of Mr. Hurd,
on the Plain, lost its life by falling into a
pail of scalding water.
A child of William H.
Bean, Jr., of Waterloo, lost its life
in the same manner.
Martin Bean
bled to death in the woods, from a cut in the
foot.
Nathaniel A. Davis,
son of Gen. Aquila,
fell from a stack of boards at his
mill, about twelve years ago, and died from the
effects of the fall.
Webster B. Davis
received a fatal hurt from a fall at Ela’s
saw-mill.
Henry Trumbull,
of Schoodac, was accidentally killed in loading
a gun in 1811.
The history of Warner, New Hampshire : for
one hundred and forty-four years, from 1735 to
1879, pages 535-538
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