Train Accident at Eastham Injures James Morgan of Yarmouth Port, MA (1877-1906)
James Anthony Morgan was born at Yarmouth, Massachusetts on 21 May 1877 to Irish immigrant parents Patrick and Mary (Howard) Morgan. They lived on Summer Street in Yarmouthport. James, a railroad employee, died on 8 March 1906 having suffered for over 18 months from paralysis and severe injuries sustained in a railroad accident while working on the New York, New Hampshire & Hartford Railroad. He is buried with his parents at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Hyannis, a small graveyard situated in a very busy and congested intersection. Patrick and Mary Morgan had 11 children, seven of whom survived birth; the children were Mary E. born 1863; Thomas Henry born 1864 - died 1891; Margaret born 1867; Sarah Eliza born 1869; Lavinia Howard born 1874; James born 1877; and the youngest, my great grandfather, William born 1880. [1892 The Register] ...