Newnum - Fred - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Nearly everyone here knew Fred Newnum. He was raised in Ladoga and spent much of his life here, being a member of the Crawfordsville ball team during the two years we sustained that organization. After ball was given up here, Fred went to Indianapolis and took a position in the yards as switchman. He kept the place and prospered greatly. Last spring he finished a house and moved into it with his family of a wife and two children. They had been there but a few days when his wife was taken down with the typhoid fever. Her illness was a long one and she had barely recovered when Fred was taken down. He had a long siege of it too and had been at work but a few days when he met his death Saturday night in the Union Railway yards. He was switching when he caught his foot in a frog and a cut of cars run him down, fracturing his leg in a terrible manner. He was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital and the limb amputated in hope of saving his life, but he was so weak from his recent illness that his system could not sustain the shock and he died last night. He was 33 years of age and a steady, sober, industrious young man and his numerous friends in this city will be pained to learn of his untimely taking off.