Moore - Daniel 1874 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Daniel Moore, an Irishman by birth, some fifty years old, long a citizen of this township (*Sugar Creek), came suddenly to his death Monday morning, Feb.. 16.  The circumstances concerning his death are as follows, as nearly as I can learn: On Saturday, the 7th, he came up on the Logansport train to Colfax, intending to go to Clark’s Hill. Missing the train, he was advised to hurry up and get the freight train at the water tank, just north of Colfax, and started up the railroad, but was so drunk that he fell every few steps, and finally fell into a cattle guard and had to be extricated by some passer-by, when he wandered off and lay out all night. Sunday he was seen at M. B. Waugh’s, some three miles south of Colfax, in this township, inquiring the way to Clark’s Hill, and late in the evening he was picked up from a pond in the road just north of Bethel Church, wet, muddy, bruised, cold and half crazed from the effects of hard drink and exposure. He was taken into an old house near at hand, a fire was built, and he was warmed and somewhat dried, and recovered enough to thank his deliverers, and told them to leave him that he would be all right by morning. The next morning the neighbors gathered in and found poor Daniel speechless and almost dead. He died at 9 a.m., undoubtedly from the effects of drink and exposure, together with the bruises he received while intoxicated.

Daniel was a civil, kind and industrious man, and very seldom took a drop. He served his adopted country in the late war with honor. He died without a physician seeing him, and was buried at Clark’s Hill without an inquest. -s