1898 Deaths

The Princeton Press, Sat., Jan. 8, 1898: LIFE LOST IN A FIRE.     Last Sunday evening, about 11 o'clock, Aaron B. Reeder of Reeder's Mills, at Rosedale, saw a fire apparently blazing from the roof of his barn, which seriously affrighted him, as he had been in the barn not many minutes before, looking after the cattle, and he feared he might have in some way set the place on fire. On going toward it, he saw the blaze was behind the barn, and at once discovered that the little house near the bridge and at the entrance to the Van Kirk distillery was ablaze. On hurrying to the spot he found the roof already about to fall in. He opened the door, and right in front of it lay the body of a man horribly burned, and beneath him lay a gun.		He could not rescue the body, and with the few neighbors who gathered, soon saw the building in ashes. The only occupant of the house was David Hubbard, a colored man, who was in the habit of watching the distillery at night, and who kept a gun. While the remains could not be recognized, there seems to be no doubt that it was Hubbard, who lost his life. The gun was usually kept on the wall, over a desk, on which he generally set his lamp. As the ramrod was found inside the gun barrel, it is thought that Hubbard was cleaning his gun, and while doing this upset the lamp, and caused the fire. Those who saw him on Sunday say he was not intoxicated, and why he was unable to escape remains a mystery
The Princeton Press, Sat., Jan. 8, 1898: VANZANDT--At Princeton, Jan. 3, 1898, Moses Vanzandt, aged 58 years.		The Princeton Press, Sat., Jan. 8, 1898:     Moses VanZandt died on Monday morning after a brief illness. He was a veteran of the late war in Co. I, Twenty-second U. S. Colored Troops. Born near Blawenburg, the greater part of his life was spent in Princeton. He was unmarried.
The Princeton Press, Sat., Jan. 15, 1898: MARSH--At Princeton, Jan. 11, 1898, William Marsh, aged 95 years.		The Princeton Press, Sat., Feb. 5, 1898: FRANKLIN.--At Princeton, February 3, 1898, Rev. Andrew B. Franklin, aged 42 years.
The Princeton Press, Sat., Feb. 19, 1898: FERGUSON.--At Princeton, Feb. 12, 1898, Isaac Ferguson, aged 31 years.		The Princeton Press, Sat., May 28, 1898: BEEKMAN--At Princeton, May 25th, 1898, Mrs. Elizabeth Beekman, aged 60 years.
The Princeton Press, Sat., Nov. 5, 1898: FREEMAN--At Princeton, Nov. 1, 1898, Hiram Freeman, aged 50 years.		The Princeton Press, Sat., Dec. 10, 1898: BUNTING--At Princeton, December 4, 1898, John H. Bunting, aged 63 years.
The Princeton Press, Sat., Dec. 3, 1898: TWO JUNCTION ACCIDENTS.     Michael Iknaez, aged 32 years, a Hungarian, was killed at Princeton Junction Wednesday morning. He was employed as a section hand on the Pennsylvania railroad, and had gone to the tool house for some shovels. As he came out of the building he stepped in front of a train and was instantly killed.     A colored man supposed to be Benaire E. Perry was killed at Princeton Junction yesterday by a passenger train going west, on the Pennsylvania railroad. He attempted to cross from the west bound to the east bound		tracks, to board a freight train, when he was struck by passenger train No. 87, and injured so that he died in a few minutes after.     A memorandum book found on the body contained the following entries on an identification page: "Benaire E. Perry, residence Columbia, Pa., born at Middletown, Pa., weight 172, eyes and hair black; profession, actor."     The coroner will correspond with addresses in the memorandum book to-day.

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