N&W in 1908 -- Fatality

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Charlie, I could be wrong; in fact, I'd like to be.  But, 1908: "colored".  
And the absence of relatives.  Sounds too simple, but that might be the sad answer to your question. 

Frank Bongiovanni


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> If they knew his name why would they put him in a nameless

> grave?  Thoughts anyone.

> 

> Charlie

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> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 1:46 AM

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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> November 11,1908

>  

> IN CITY AND COALFIELD

> ------

> Colored Man Killed

>     John Watson, colored, was killed at Iaeger on Monday

> night about 7:20, by engine No. 760, about two hundred yards

> of the depot.  Watson was employed as a pumper by the

> railroad company and was walking along the track when the

> engine suddenly came upon him and struck him before he could

> get out of its way.  His body was taken in charge by the

> railroad people.  His home is at Iaeger, but it is not

> known where his relatives live, and he will probably go to a

> nameless grave.

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> [In view of today's social security and other

> employment records it is hard to believe that there was a

> time when so little would be known about an employee that he

> would be buried in a nameless grave.]

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