Hi Julia: There's just a newspaper clipping of the accident pasted inside the front cover of the Snyder Bible. It doesn't show the name of the paper or the date, but it does say, "A fatal accident occurred at 6:45 o'clock this morning to Elias Snyder, a lad of 16 years, at Germantown." It continues with his place of work, the engine he was riding on, his father's name and address, etc. The entry for his death in the Bible shows September 16, 1893. Thank you very much for looking. I'll check the Middletown Argus. Judy At 11:46 PM 3/9/2010, you wrote: >Hi - > >What paper and what date did you find the newspaper item in? > >I looked through microfilm at the Middletown library and couldn't find a >mention of him, which I think is odd. I checked for the week following his >16 Sep 1893 death in the dailies and the next 2 issues in the weekly. I >even checked this mailing list's archives to see that I wrote down the >correct date. > >Although I found an item about a similar death in Trenton, NJ, plenty of >other items for Port Jervis residents, even social notes from >teensy-weensy Milford, PA, I didn't see anything about Elias' death. > >I looked at: >Middletown Daily Press >Middletown Daily Times >Orange County Press > >I didn't look through the Middletown Argus as it's readily available >online at ancestry.com and historical newspaper archive. > >I'll try to get to Port Jervis one day to look through the PJ paper, I >just can't promise when. > >Yours, Julia

Hi I have a scan of the Middletown Daily Times (page 3) with this artical about Elias Snyder in it. I would be happy to send it to whomever needed it - Judy or Julia? Or both Sue On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Bill & Judy Cuyle <bjcuyle@lightlink.com>wrote: > Hi Julia: > > There's just a newspaper clipping of the accident pasted inside the front > cover of the Snyder Bible. It doesn't show the name of the paper or the > date, but it does say, "A fatal accident occurred at 6:45 o'clock this > morning to Elias Snyder, a lad of 16 years, at Germantown." It continues > with his place of work, the engine he was riding on, his father's name and > address, etc. The entry for his death in the Bible shows September 16, > 1893. > > Thank you very much for looking. I'll check the Middletown Argus. > > Judy > > At 11:46 PM 3/9/2010, you wrote: > >Hi - > > > >What paper and what date did you find the newspaper item in? > > > >I looked through microfilm at the Middletown library and couldn't find a > >mention of him, which I think is odd. I checked for the week following his > >16 Sep 1893 death in the dailies and the next 2 issues in the weekly. I > >even checked this mailing list's archives to see that I wrote down the > >correct date. > > > >Although I found an item about a similar death in Trenton, NJ, plenty of > >other items for Port Jervis residents, even social notes from > >teensy-weensy Milford, PA, I didn't see anything about Elias' death. > > > >I looked at: > >Middletown Daily Press > >Middletown Daily Times > >Orange County Press > > > >I didn't look through the Middletown Argus as it's readily available > >online at ancestry.com and historical newspaper archive. > > > >I'll try to get to Port Jervis one day to look through the PJ paper, I > >just can't promise when. > > > >Yours, Julia > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Susan Bennett-Perkowski http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/n/Susan-M-Bennettperkowski/ http://bennettplusmott.familytreeguide.com/tree_index.php

The Argus will probably have the very same item. The local papers "shared" a lot. Susan sent me page 3 from the Middletown Daily Press, 16 Sep 1893, to show that I wasn't going nuts. --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Bill & Judy Cuyle <bjcuyle@lightlink.com> wrote: ...I'll check the Middletown Argus. Judy