This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rice Schuyler Guiles Ritz Lampson Parkel Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8360 Message Board Post: newspaper dated Fri. May 12, 1899 South Edwards- Tuesday morning May 2nd, Judson J. Rice started out to his work about 7. He was going to draw manure and have the garden plowed for his son-in-law, Joseph Ritz. Their two places were near each other. His brother Wade helped to remove the box and they arranged boards on the wagon. He then went home. The first load was taken to the top of the hill. It is very steep, and he went around the road. But he had an extra steady horse about driving down hill and had driven down before. He seemed to have crossed and got ready to descend. He was alone. But his brother-in-law, Wincent Hammond, from his house saw there was some trouble, either the horse was frightened or something had broken and she strated down the hill. After she started he sprang on to the wagon. The boards came forward onto her, and she ran. He came down the worst of the hill and had turned her across back of the house, when he seemed to fly from the wagon. He went with much force and struck an apple tree. Hammond was soon there. He was doubled in a heap lying in a furrow and against the tree. Friends soon bore him to his home, where he lived five hours after the accident at 9:30, and died at 2:30. The horse got loose from the wagon and stopped at the old Starch Factory, but a short distance from the scene, Dr. Merkly of Edwards, accompanied by a doctor from Montreal, and O.C. Hammond, brother of the bereaved wife from Fine, were there. His skull was fractured at the base of the brain and an artery cut, besides smaller injuries. He was buried from the Church in this place. There were 50 relatives at the funeral. The church was finely decorated with flowers and all that kind neighbors and friends could do was done. Mr. McLeod, Fine, undertaker; Rev. Gale, Edwards, pastor; Our Home Choir Text, Isaiah 26,3. Singing, Thy Will be Done, The Golden Shore, and Going Down the Valley. He was born in this town and he has lived in this place 24 years last April. Married H.D.E. Hammond of this place 25 years ago come September. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Ina Ritz of Newton Falls and Bertel aged 15 with her mother, one grand-daughter Hazel, and has gone to join little Frank, a grand-son, who died 13 weeks before and whom he seemed to mourn whith his whole heart. They now lie near each other in the church yard, and we hope nearer in heaven. His age 46 years. He also leaves and aged father and mother in Canton, two sisters, Mrs. C. Lampson, Brown's Falls, and Mrs. J. Parkel, Canton. two brothers, Silas at Brown's Falls, and Wade of this place. He will be missed at the church and Sabbath school by neighbors and friends. He was a kind son and brother, and loving husband and father. Note: Judson was the s/o Silas P. Rice and Lydia Schuyler, and was married to Helen Hammond, d/o Ira A. Hammond and Mary Ann Stuart. His children were: Ina Rice who was married to Joseph Ritz and Iona Bertel Rice who was married to Fred Guiles. His brother Silas who was married to Alzina Cumber ( my great-grandparents)