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Mary Clark Duby

1894 - 1933


 Woman's Body is Discovered on Railroad

Mrs. John Duby, Wheatland, meets tragic fate at Farrell. Believed to have been killed by a southbound Erie freight train at 5:30 am today, the mangled body of Mrs. Mary Clark Duby, 39, wife of John Duby of 36 Shenango St. Wheatland was found on the railroad tracks near the American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. coal pile opposite Hamilton Ave. & Broadway by William Reese an employee of the company while in route to work at 6:50 am. Both legs were severed at the hip.

Reese notified Paul Purash, watchman at the AS&TP Co. plant who called Farrell police, Dr. W. A. Applegate, county Coroner, was summoned and pronounced a verdict of accidental death.

Mrs. Duby was born in Jacksonville, Fl. the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Clark. Besides her husband she is survived by an adopted son. (Charles Francis Hughes).

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am tomorrow form the Pustinger Funeral Home, Fruit Ave. Farrell. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery.

The Sharon Herald, July 20,1933. Submitted by Teresa



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