Kathy -- Not my guy, but what a fascinating account! I love these old news reports...thanks for sending on! -----Original Message----- From: Kathy <kathycorriher@prodigy.net> To: KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com <KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 10:10 AM Subject: [KNAPP] Joseph N. Knapp NY >Hello all, while searching for my greatgrandfather Joseph KNAPP and his wife >Minnie ROMMEL, I have come across this and wanted to share it. I hope it >helps someone! >Merry Christmas to you all! > >*** >Fort Hill Cemetery New York >I spoke with a very nice woman Elaine yesterday 12/22 to inquire on Joseph >and Minnie KNAPP who are buried there. This is the info she provided me >with. > >Joseph N. KNAPP purchased a six grave lot on 6 May 1893. > Grave 1 Thomas D. KNAPP d. 27 Jun 1936 at the age of 46 > Grave 2 Joseph N. KNAPP d. 24 May 1910 at the age of 47 > Grave 3 Minnie L. KNAPP d. 2 Jun 1932 at the age of 67 > Grave 4 Harold KNAPP d. 27 Jan 1893 at the age of 5 > Grave 5 Charles J. KNAPP, Sr. d. 6 Mar 1974 at the age of 78 > Grave 6 Marion C. KNAPP d. 8 Aug 1996 at the age of 94 > >end of the info supplied by Fort Hill Cemetery. >*** >Prior to receiving the above info. I had requested the obit on this Joseph >N. KNAPP. I will try to put it all here, but may need to have a Part 2 if >it is too long. >*** >THE ONEIDA DISPATCH, ONEIDA, N.Y. MAY 27, 1910 > >ANOTHER AUTOMOBILE FATALITY > >One Man Killed and Three Injured Near Sherrill Tuesday Night > >A distressing automobile accident in which Joseph N. Knapp, a prominent >traveling shoe salesman of Auburn, was instantly killed, and James G. S. >Dey, Thomas E. Clay and the chauffeur, Elliott Brown, colored, all of >Syracuse, were painfully injured, occurred at a out 5:30 Tuesday evening on >the Seneca turnpike near Morrison's crossing, between Sherrill and Vernon. >The accident was due to the collapse of the right forward wheel of Mr. Dey's >60 horse power Franklin touring car, No. 5711. > >The party was returning from a shoot of the Rome Gun club. Mr. Knapp and >Mr. Clay were in the rear seat while Mr. Dey and his chauffeur were in the >front, Brown being at the wheel. They had made a detour around Vernon and >were again on the turnpike, running upwards of 20 miles an hour. It is >claimed that some one noticed that one of the front wheels wobbled and the >car slowed down, but not quickly enough. The four occupants were hurled out >on to the ground. Mr. Knapp striking on his head on the roadside and >breaking his neck, dying almost instantly. Mr. Clay was the first to gain >his feet. He found Mr. Dey in the road badly dazed and Brown, the chauffeur >in the ditch writhing with pain. > >A companion car occupied by C.L. Faatz of Seneca Falls and Charles Dailey of >Baldwinsville, and which was preceding them, soon turned back and brought >Mr. Dey to the Broad Street Hospital in this city where an examination by >Dr. Carpenter showed that he had sustained one broken rib, sprained muscles >of the back and abrasions on the forehead, right cheek and temple. > >Campbell's ambulance was sent to the wreck and brought Clay and Brown to the >Broad Street Hospital and the body of Knapp by direction of Coroner Lewis to >the morgue. Clay received lacerations of the scalp and was able to go to >his home Wednesday forenoon with his wife, who arrived here about midnight. >Brown sustained a broken right shoulder, abrasions of the arm and hands and >injured kidneys and ligaments of the back. He will be confined to his bed >for some time, but will recover. Mr. Knapp's brother, Charles Knapp of >Auburn, arrived here at midnight and at 11:23 Wednesday took the body to >Auburn. Knapp leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter. > >Mrs. Dey was advised of the accident and arrived in Oneida about 8 o'clock. >She has remained with her husband at the hospital since. On Wednesday >Donald Dey's son, nephew of the injured man was also here. Mr. Dey is a >member of the firm of Dey Brothers & Co. of Syracuse. He is badly injured, >but it is believed that he will recover, although he will have to remain >here in the hospital for a week or more. > >At the hospital yesterday afternoon Mr. Dey and Mr. Brown were reported >doing well, with no change in their condition. > >The cause of the accident seems to be a mystery. While it is attributed to >the collapse of the right front wheel, every spoke of which was broken, >there is a suspicion that the tire burst, which caused the machine to swerve >and hurl the occupants out. > > Credit: I did not do the footwork on this info. I was provided a copy >of the microfiche from S. Cook in Oneida, NY. These gracious efforts >included going to the library, looking up a surname and then located this >page of history. This person then spent their own money to copy and mail me >(by snail mail) the photocopy of microfiche. A big thank you! >Note from transcriber: I have typed this as seen on a copy from microfiche >(black background and white typing) - some of which is difficult to read. >Errors of names may be due to inability to determine certain letters. >Wording is word for word otherwise. > > > >