For those in need of graphic and gruesome ways to kill off characters, there's a seemingly inexhaustable source from newspaper clippings just from one state in one month of one year.
Awesome gruesome link! Thanks, CoriSCapnSkip (that's a long nick )
Nicole
Posted by CoriSCapnSkip (Member # 3228) on :
Yeah, I didn't even read them all but wonder if there's more. The little girl strangled by a snake is classic, but the boy set afire by stage lights as he went to take a bow for his brilliant, and final performance is the stuff of high tragedy.
Posted by pantros (Member # 3237) on :
Scary is that, knowing my family geneology back to 13th Century England, I recognized a great uncle's and a Great Great Grandfather's names mentioned.
Posted by Louiseoneal (Member # 3494) on :
This is the one I'd love to see a story about (either telling us where he was all those years, or how his family reacts to him showing back up all of a sudden or both):
quote:His father was a peculiar man. Neighbors say that he disappeared in an unceremonious manner one day, and was gone 14 years. When he returned he entered the house and took his place at the hearth as quietly, naturally and unceremoniously as if he had been absent less than 14 minutes.
Posted by CoriSCapnSkip (Member # 3228) on :
It's good to see that this one newspaper, the Hunterdon County Democrat, one of the principle newspapers of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, was picking up items from many other locations, and all these things did not take place in one particularly cursed county. "The extracts are from 1837-1900 copies of the paper. While these extracts in no way reflect all possible genealogical information available, they do reflect a concerted effort to extract all marriage and death information.... It should also be noted that while the Democrat contains information primarily related to the Hunterdon County area, there is also much information regarding people from other parts of the State as well as other States."
Of course the marriages are ever so much more boring than the deaths. With so many years to choose from, the possibilities are endless!
Posted by hoptoad (Member # 2145) on :
Would that be the Martins?
Posted by Leigh (Member # 2901) on :
Three words come to mind when reading some of those:
What the ...!?
Posted by CoriSCapnSkip (Member # 3228) on :
Unfortunately, some of the earlier ones are not as interesting as those from the 1880s, because either the cause of death was not known, not given in as much detail, or the person posting these chose not to include all details the newspaper gave. There's still a veritable wealth to be had with what is there, and it REALLY gives pause to ponder, when walking through an old cemetery, the clichés that all the children died of diseases and any woman between 15 and 45 "must" have died due to childbirth.
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