Dear Shank researchers, I thought I would share this with the family. >From the Indiana (Pa.) Register. DISTRESSING CASUALTY-- On Friday morning last, two young lads, a son of Mr. Stewart and a son of Mr. Shank, left this borough with the U. S. Mail, --which is carried on horseback between this place and Greensburgh, --and when about 5 miles from town, the horse upon which Jacob Shank was riding stumbled; and caused the saddle with the boy to turn directly under the belly of the horse; and one of his feet remaining in the stirrup strap, --they not being up to allow him to put his feet in the irons, --he was dragged in this manner over a very rough road a distance of forty rods. When taken from the horse, he presented a most shocking appearance: his chest was noticed to rise and fall a few times, and then all was calm. The back part of his head was torn off, his thigh broken in two or three places, and the horse had stepped upon his breast, which was crushed, and his body otherwise dreadfully bruised and mangled. He was about fifteen years of age. This was his first trip with the mail, and young Stewart was accompanying him to learn the route, when he was thus suddenly and unexpectedly called from time to eternity. ...The Baltimore Patriot; date: 1834-08-20; Vol. XLIII; Issue: 42; Page 2 Source: Early American Newspapers; Newsbank, Godfrey.org Blessings, Connie Mayo He is risen from the dead an d He is Lord. </HTML>