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.