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Hezekiah Springer "Babe" Croghan

6 Jan 1878 – 10 Jan 1901

Birth	6 Jan 1878
Death	10 Jan 1901
Cemetery	Rock Cemetery Woodbury County , Iowa , USA
Added by	William Croghan on 06 Mar 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37287913

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Son of Hezekiah Springer Croghan & Elizabeth M. Croghan The Sioux Valley News, 17 January 1901, page 1: "H.S. Croghan Married Sunday and Accidentally Killed Thursday." Sunday morning, January 6, 1901, Hezekiah S. Croghan and Eva May Eddy were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rhodes, who live in the southwest corner of Rock township, Rev. W.M. Force officiating. John Kirshner did duty as best man and Miss Mary Croghan as bridesmaid. The bride and groom will make their future home on a farm south of town. The well wishes of many friends attend them….This was the notice handed to the News last week just too late for insertion in last week's paper. The paper had scarcely been printed when word was brought to town that Mr. Croghan had met a sudden death while working about a horsepower. The News has the facts from a neighbor. A knuckle on the tumbling rod of the power to Mr. Croghan's corn sheller was defective, a bolt projecting a little and making a dangerous trap. Mr. Croghan recognized this and only a day or two before had asked a neighbor to stop and get him a new one while in town and then changed his mind and said that he was going in a few days himself and he would get it then. This delay cost him his life. While working near the dangerous knuckle Mr. Croghan's overcoat caught on the projecting bolt and he was thrown around the rod. As he struck the ground the top of his head was crushed in. Death was instantaneous. The circumstances of his recent marriage makes this death peculiarly sad and the widowed bride has the sincere sympathy of all who have a knowledge of the case. The following account has been received from the News reporter at Midway, Frank W. Bush: Long before this issue of the News reaches its readers the accidental death of Babe Croghan will be generally known among the acquaintances but why he was so suddenly killed would not be understood by many. The writer of this was shoveling corn at the time and witnessed the horrible accident and will say that it was done so quick that it was beyond the power of any man to prevent it. The knuckle next to the sheller had been fixed with new bolts that were about an inch too long and the projecting ends were left on. He had helped run an empty wagon under the elevator just as the driver started the horses up. He then walked around the cob stacker and toward the above-mentioned knuckle, apparently with the intention of throwing the feeder in gear and of course the sheller had attained a very high motion by that time. At that moment I had thrown a shovel of corn in the feeder and taken 2 steps forward for another and 2 backward and thrown it in the feeder when I saw him moving around the rod. Before I could step around the feeder and get to him the power had stopped. If his overcoat, which was long, had caught on the rod it would not have pulled him down so quick, but catching on the knuckle, the circumference of which is at least 18 inches, 2 revolutions would pull him down. His body when we cut him loose was parallel with the rod with his arms, head and shoulders toward the sheller and so close to the projecting sheller frame that they struck twice at each revolution. If could not have been 20 seconds from the time his coat caught until the power was stopped and half a minute after he was loosened from the rod he was dead. I have given this description of the accident to show that it was so instantaneous that those around could not have saved his life. He was called Babe by his family and friends..... There is an unmarked Croghan here also,,, I do not know who it is.... It may be his mother Elizabeth (Pruett) Croghan. Babe's stone has Sweet Williams all around it,,,

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Eva Mae Eddy Fincke 1884–1979 FaG

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