John Winn
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2014
- Location
- State of Jefferson
Not only drugs, I'll bet. "Accidents" also. Last night I finished editing the bio of one poor man who made it through 4 years of warfare only to find everything at home had changed--and there was no place for him. In 1870 he fell off a railroad bridge into the river and was killed. I know that bridge--it is right next to a regular bridge, complete with footpath (it was then as it is now). He could have crossed the river in a perfectly safe way but he chose a riskier route. I wonder if it was done on purpose? Is this "accident" actually a suicide?
Accidents indeed. People didn't have much of a sense of work safety and there weren't any laws about such either. In the cemetery where I volunteer there are a number of veterans who died from accidents. The block we're currently restoring has a woman, her brother, and her two husbands (both veterans). Her first husband was accidentally shot by his nephew on a deer hunting trip and her second husband fell off the roof of the IOOF building he was helping to construct in town.