Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — An Unlucky Family. [ARTICLE]

An Unlucky Family.

Luke P. Blackburn was accidentally killed in St. Louis county, Mo., recently. His oldest brother, Edward 0., a lawyer, was killed by the fall of a railroad bridge in 1855.. Another brother George W., was drowned from the steamer Stonewall in 1870. A third brother, Jonathan T., was lost ®n the steamer Saluda, which exploded her boiler on the Missouri river in 1852. A sister, Martha, when quite young, fell from a fence and died of her injuries.