Leona Eliza BLAISDELL

1898 - 1914  (15 years)

• Name	Leona Eliza BLAISDELL
  Born	7 Sep 1898	Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Gender	Female
  Died young	Y
  Cause of Death	Struck by a train
  Died	11 Jul 1914	Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I2707	Main
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Harry Fremont BLAISDELL,   b. 7 Apr 1869, E Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 4 Aug 1946, E Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Jennie Estella FULLER,   b. 28 Aug 1875, Steep Falls, Standish, Maine ,   d. 16 Jul 1949, E Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 7 Sep 1898 - Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire Died - 11 Jul 1914 - Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
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  Documents » Slide Show		Victims Collide with a Train - 1
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• Notes

  The Brattleboro Daily Reformer (Brattleboro, Vermont); 13 jul 1914 SIX WERE KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING Omnibus Filled with Picnic Party Was Struck by a Freight Train in North Rochester, N. H. Rochester, NH, July 13. — Six young persons were killed last Saturday afternoon in a collision between an omnibus and a freight train on a grade crossing at North Rochester, five miles above this city. It was the tragic ending of a picnic at New Bridge, Milton, of the Baptist Sunday school at East Rochester. The party of young folk were singing “Nearer My God to Thee,” as their wagon rumbled down the road toward the tracks and the voices drowned out the noise of the train. The list of the dead is: Leona Blaisdell, age 15, daughter of Harry Blaisdell Edith Blaisdell, at 14, daughter of George Blaisdell Helen Andrews, age 16, adopted daughter of William Blaisdell Ruth Libbey, 16, daughter of John Libbey Eddie Deveney, age 16, of Blackington, Mass Fatally injured, and died later at the hospital is Dover, Muriel Blaisdell, 11, sister of Leona Blaisdell. Twenty-three attended the picnic including the Rev. M. M. Tupper, pastor of the East Rochester Free Baptist church, and his wife. They went in two teams hired of Thomas W. Peavey, and East Rochester stable keeper. Once was a two-seated carriage hauled by a single horse and the other an omnibus drawn by two horses. The driver of the latter was Guy Hayes, East Rochester. It was shortly before 6 o’clock that the party on the return trip approached the railroad grade-crossing of the Portsmouth and Conway branch of the Boston & Maine railroad at North Rochester. The two-seated conveyance had crossed ahead. There were 16 in the omnibus, the curtains of which had been let down on account of the rain.