I hope that this not too confusing, but, I am forwarding this letter to this list in the hopes that some fine person, on this list will be able to find the newspaper that this accident must have been...In fact, made headlines and it had to have occurred right around his 85th birthday just a around August 1935 and right around Pacific Grove,CA where he died in 1938. Notice that Dee found me the obit,(here): Obit: Salinas Index-Journal, June 11, 1938, p.10: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <purplevw1@home.com> To: "US-OBITS-L" <US-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: Pike, Jonathan Elmer b.30 Aug 1850,OH;d. 11 Jun 1938 CA > I have a quandary...I used to do obits and all kinds of > records here in > Sacramento state library. I always wanted to look up an > item but did not > have enough information.Now ,I have more data and a > photo. > [THE STORY] > > I always heard (in our family, that my great grand > father,Jonathan Elmer > Pike,<born August 1850> lost all of his money when his > car crashed, > backwards into a store in town. Now, I figure that it had > to have made the > local newspaper of the time. He was 85 on his birthday > before the crash and > I figure that it had to have happened just after August > of 1935.As I figure > that perhaps he got the car for his birthday. At the time > he should have > been living in Pacific Grove,Monterey?,CA > I never heard any other outcome other than he lost his > money ,property and > everything.I never even heard the name of the store but > from the picture it > looks to be a small department store. I have been doing > genealogy since 1970 > and have many family members helping as well as many > cyber friends > I figure that this would be wonderful story to share > with my family > *********************************** > I AM STILL HOPING FOR THE NEWSPAPER > HEADLINES THAT MUST HAVE CAUSED > ************************************ > HERE IS THE OBIT THAT I RECEIVED. > [ He is descended from Mary Alden of Mayflower fame.] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > DCT: Case 15, Cert. 318 > PIKE, Jonathan E. > DoD: 11 Jun 1938 > Res: 504 - 8th, Pacific Grove, CA > m, w, widowed: Elizabeth PIKE, dec'd > DoB: 30 Aug 1850 > Age 87y, 9m, 11d > Occ: Merchant; 11y > Date last worked at occ: Jun 1924 > BP: Del[a]ware, OH > Father: Jonatho[a]n PIKE, b. Penn. > Mother: Sara LOWD[ER]EN, b. Iowa > LoS: in city: 4d; in CA: 42y > Inf: Fred PIKE, 312 - 1st St., Pacific Grove > CoD: Myocardial degeneration with cardiac decompensation > D/T: Chronic inte---stitial nephritis > D/T: Generalized arteriosclerosis > Phy: H.L WILLIAMS, Monterey Co. Hosp. > Burial: IOOF Cemetery; 13 Jun 1938 > FD: Muller Mortuary, Salinas > > Obit: Salinas Index-Journal, June 11, 1938, p.10: > Mr. Jonathan E. PIKE, 87, a resident of Pacific Grove for the last 30 > years, died early Saturday morning in a local hospital, following a > stroke of paralysis. He was a native of Delaware county, Ohio. > Mr. PIKE leaves 1 daughter, Mrs. Edith FOSTER of Spreckels; 4 sons, Mr. > Fred PIKE, of Pacific Grove, Mr[s.?] Charlie PIKE and Mr. Robert PIKE of San > Jose, and Mr. Arthur PIKE of Fresno. Also surviving are 23 grandchildren > and 23 great grandchildren. > Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the > Muller mortuary, followed by interment in the IOOF cemetery. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [All enclosed in these brackets are my corrections,comments] > My grand mother is in the 1900 census in Los Banos, CA, working for a > landowner as a maid/baby sitter, is wife and two children are listed. > Suddenly she became with child. Her father paid a Portuguese ,from the > Azores Islands,immigrant $50.00 to marry her they died within weeks of each > other in the 1940's they had 14 children, one of which was my mother. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN > >