OBIT:  KENNEDY, Charles D. "Don"; 1908; Lilly, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 6 Mar 1908
Volume 42, Number 10


Former Cambrian Killed 

Charles D. Kennedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kennedy, formerly of Lilly, this county, died on Friday night 
last as the result of injuries sustained by being crushed between bumpers of two cars which he was coupling 
in the yard of the Carnegie Steel Company in Braddock.

"Don" Kennedy, as he was familiarly known, was born in Portage Township this county, about eighteen years 
ago but soon after his birth his parents removed to Braddock where recently he was engaged as a brakeman 
in the yards of the Carnegie Steel Company and on Friday night attempted to couple two cars loaded with 
steel rails, he stepped between them on the inside of a curve, and when the cars came together he was 
crushed between the bumpers so badly that he died in a short time but not before he had received spiritual 
attention.

The deceased was an exemplary young man, a member of St. Thomas' Roman Catholic Church of Braddock.  
After a high mass of requiem in that church on Monday morning last the remains of the industrious young man 
were interred in the cemetery attached to the church nearby.