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Elisha G. Quick
1850 - 1908 (58 years)-
Name Elisha G. Quick Birth 6 Jan 1850 Fremont, Steuben County, New York 
Gender Male Death 1 Sep 1908 Hornell, Steuben County, New York Burial Rural Cemetery, Hornellsville, Steuben County, New York Notes - Elisha was livery driver and involved in the tragic accident at dusk of February 1, 1905 when he was operating a sleigh which contained the party of prominent women of Hornell who were on the sleigh ride trip of the Universalist church when the sleigh was struck by a Shawmut train near Arkport and ten of the ladies were killed (he and three other ladies survived with serious injuries). He was later found guilty of "carelessness or very poor judgement" but the jury did not believe the facts warranted criminal prosecution. At the time of the accident he claimed he couldn't get the horses to stop with all the commotion from the ladies yelling on the sleigh and from the sleigh that had just crossed, as well as lights of the train coming.
Ironically, there was an incident five years prior in which is wife, Fannie, escape fatal injuries when her runaway horse was killed as it ran into a passenger train, she was thrown from the sleigh.
(Corning Journal, Wednesday, February 8, 1905; Bolivar Breeze, Thursday, February, 23, 1905; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Tuesday, March 8, 1900)
- Elisha died tragically three years later from a fractured skull after a fall while "filling water tanks in Pullman cars and as he was hurrying along the top of the cars dragging a long hose from one tank to another, the hose broke in two and he fell headlong to the platform with tremendous force."
(The Times, Canisteo, NY, Wednesday, September 2, 1908)
Person ID I30371 OurNorthernRoots Last Modified 9 Jan 2021
Father Samuel Gilson Quick, b. 16 Nov 1817, New York d. 28 Feb 1892, Fremont, Steuben County, New York (Age 74 years) Mother Sarah Myers, b. ca 1822, New York d. 1918, Hornell, Steuben County, New York (Age ~ 96 years) Marriage Abt 1842 Family ID F12285 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Fannie Leona Curry, b. 20 Jan 1858, Fremont, Steuben County, New York d. 5 Sep 1944, Hornell, Steuben County, New York (Age 86 years) Marriage Abt 1875 Children > 1. Willam Henry Quick, b. 22 Jan 1878, Fremont, Steuben County, New York d. 16 Feb 1950, Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York (Age 72 years)+ 2. Ethelyne B. Quick, b. Jul 1881, Fremont, Steuben County, New York d. 12 Jul 1960, Hornell, Steuben County, New York (Age ~ 78 years)Family ID F11208 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Elisha was livery driver and involved in the tragic accident at dusk of February 1, 1905 when he was operating a sleigh which contained the party of prominent women of Hornell who were on the sleigh ride trip of the Universalist church when the sleigh was struck by a Shawmut train near Arkport and ten of the ladies were killed (he and three other ladies survived with serious injuries). He was later found guilty of "carelessness or very poor judgement" but the jury did not believe the facts warranted criminal prosecution. At the time of the accident he claimed he couldn't get the horses to stop with all the commotion from the ladies yelling on the sleigh and from the sleigh that had just crossed, as well as lights of the train coming.
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Birth - 6 Jan 1850 - Fremont, Steuben County, New York 
Death - 1 Sep 1908 - Hornell, Steuben County, New York 
Burial - - Rural Cemetery, Hornellsville, Steuben County, New York = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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