A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > Genesee http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=637 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=43473 Submitted by: New York Contributors Article Title: Republican Advocate Article Date: December 29 1863 Article Description: Sudden Death of Edward Johnson. Article Text: Originally submitted by: L. Schmidt Sudden Death. On Christmas Day, a well known colored man, named Edward Johnson died at the Western Hotel, in this village. A jury was empanelled by Dr J.L. Curtis, Coroner, who, after an examination, rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death from the following causes: 1. By softening of the posterior portion of the brain, caused by habitual drunkenness. 2. As more immediate cause, effusion of water upon the brain in general, as a result of congestion, which had been produced by an enormous quantity of liquor which had been drunk that day, in the neighborhood of the Depot. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com