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MOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY
LOT 859 Purchased by JOHN SAILER, APRIL 16, 1859 (spelling as copied)
INTERRED
Mary Weest March 26, 1849
Child March 20, 1858, nearest relative father John,
John Sailer May 26, 1869, nearest relative widow
Rachael J. Sailer August 14, 1912, nearest relative daughter
Sarah Sailer August 17, 1921, nearest relative daughter
HISTORY OF MOUNT HOLLY BY Henry C. SHINN c1957, reprinted 1998. "Another tragedy occurred in the same neighborhood about 1859 when the boiler of a locomotive exploded while hauling a train of cars loaded with marl (which is a species of earth according to an 1877 dictionary) between Washington and Water Streets. The boiler was blown into the creek, and the tracks torn up for a considerable distance. The engineer, Job Gaskill, of Bordentown, was severely scalded and died in a few hours. Fireman Charles L. Platt of Sykesville, and conductor John A. Sailer, of Pine St., Mount Holly, were scalded and injured internally, but lived until the following day. Brakeman Edward Joyce was blown into an adjoining meadow with a crushed leg and broken arm. Five others of the train crew were unhurt. " Henry C. Shinn wrote, "This history is imperfect and incomplete, but it has seemed a duty to write it, assuming all responsibility for the mistakes it may contain." Note that the accident actually happened in 1869.
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