Going to the election Tuesday cost Joseph Manny his life. In stepping down from the New Castle Road to the election house, he slipped and fell heavily, fracturing two of his ribs. He was hauled to Butler and a physician was consulted and then hauled back as far as John Leighner's from where he walked home; but as soon as he laid down he cried out for those about him to raise him, as he was smothering and was in intense pain. He began spitting blood and died probably from a hemorrhage that night.
[From a letter from Jayne Beech to Shaun Martin, February 19, 2001]
