Vermont AHGP
Part of the American History and
Genealogy Project
Accidental and Sudden Deaths
By Zed. S. Stanton, Esq.
Joseph Batchelder drowned July 14, 1822.
Uriah Richardson died from injuries received while chopping, January 21, 1831.
Alvah Henry, killed by the fall of a tree June 28, 1831.
Mrs. Belcher, suicide by hanging, about 1831.
Charles Webster, killed by being thrown from a wagon, November 5, 1834.
Shubael Wales, suicide by shooting. March 18, 1843.
David Dexter, supposed to have wandered away in a state of insanity and died of exposure, about 1843.
Royal Flint, frozen to death, January 22, 1846.
A man named Jackson was killed by the premature discharge of a blast, at the time, the Central Vermont Railroad was in process of construction, January 25, 1846.
An Irishman, name unknown, died of exposure in the summer of 1847.
A young man, name unknown, was drowned in what is now known as Hall's Pond, about 1848.
Lewis Hutchinson, killed by the fall of a tree, January 26, 1850.
Charles Green, suicide, by shooting, in 1854.
Lutheria Spaulding, aged 5 years, killed by falling beneath a loaded wagon, August 5, 1854.
Joseph Paine, Peter S. P. Staples, found dead in the woods, September 27, 1856.
John Campbell, died by poison taken accidentally, Apr. 13, 1861.
Delia Green, found dead, August 17, 1867.
A. E. Stockwell, a railroad brakeman, killed November 12, 1870.
Peter Shinah, killed by cars June 29, 1870.
Isaac A. Flint, suicide by cutting his throat, about 1870.
Mrs. Plurinna Erskine, suicide by hanging, September 8, 1872.
Buel Gold, suicide by hanging, August 29, 1876.
Clarence Tracy, a child, death caused by scalding, September 26, 1876.
A Central Vermont Railroad brakeman named Sharrow, killed by falling beneath the cars, February 5, 1881.
A wood chopper named Fox, killed by a falling tree, February 21, 1881.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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