Union Cemetery

Duerst, Melchior

BORN: 1858
BORN IN: Switzerland
DIED: 4/14/1897
AGED: 39
CAUSE OF DEATH: Accidental drowning
DEATH LOCATION: Searsville Dam

OCCUPATION: Watchman

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)

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