Calvert, Thomas ~ CIVIL WAR VETERAN ~
ILL. Vol. INF.
April 16,1880 Era newspaper article:
Last Saturday evening about 5 o'clock, Thomas Calvert, who has resided in this county twelve years, making his home at O. Waterman's and W. Wilkinson's most of the time was riding a horse at full speed over the prairie when the animal fell, throwing him forty feet.
Striking upon his head and shoulders, the concussion was very severe, causing paralysis and loss of sensation in the extremities by injury of the cervical portion of the spine. He was taken to the house of Joseph Keen on Ed.. Wilkinson's farm, by Mr. Keen who was with him at the time and he rallied and seemed to feel much better until twelve o'clock Sunday night when he had a slight spasm and died within an hour from hemorrhage upon base of brain and cervical part of spine.
The deceased was thirty four years old, single and had no relatives in this country. he was a steady, industrious man and his untimely death brings sadness to many a heart.
ILL. Vol. INF.
April 16,1880 Era newspaper article:
Last Saturday evening about 5 o'clock, Thomas Calvert, who has resided in this county twelve years, making his home at O. Waterman's and W. Wilkinson's most of the time was riding a horse at full speed over the prairie when the animal fell, throwing him forty feet.
Striking upon his head and shoulders, the concussion was very severe, causing paralysis and loss of sensation in the extremities by injury of the cervical portion of the spine. He was taken to the house of Joseph Keen on Ed.. Wilkinson's farm, by Mr. Keen who was with him at the time and he rallied and seemed to feel much better until twelve o'clock Sunday night when he had a slight spasm and died within an hour from hemorrhage upon base of brain and cervical part of spine.
The deceased was thirty four years old, single and had no relatives in this country. he was a steady, industrious man and his untimely death brings sadness to many a heart.
Calvert, Thomas ~ CIVIL WAR VETERAN ~
ILL. Vol. INF.
April 16,1880 Era newspaper article:
Last Saturday evening about 5 o'clock, Thomas Calvert, who has resided in this county twelve years, making his home at O. Waterman's and W. Wilkinson's most of the time was riding a horse at full speed over the prairie when the animal fell, throwing him forty feet.
Striking upon his head and shoulders, the concussion was very severe, causing paralysis and loss of sensation in the extremities by injury of the cervical portion of the spine. He was taken to the house of Joseph Keen on Ed.. Wilkinson's farm, by Mr. Keen who was with him at the time and he rallied and seemed to feel much better until twelve o'clock Sunday night when he had a slight spasm and died within an hour from hemorrhage upon base of brain and cervical part of spine.
The deceased was thirty four years old, single and had no relatives in this country. he was a steady, industrious man and his untimely death brings sadness to many a heart.
ILL. Vol. INF.
April 16,1880 Era newspaper article:
Last Saturday evening about 5 o'clock, Thomas Calvert, who has resided in this county twelve years, making his home at O. Waterman's and W. Wilkinson's most of the time was riding a horse at full speed over the prairie when the animal fell, throwing him forty feet.
Striking upon his head and shoulders, the concussion was very severe, causing paralysis and loss of sensation in the extremities by injury of the cervical portion of the spine. He was taken to the house of Joseph Keen on Ed.. Wilkinson's farm, by Mr. Keen who was with him at the time and he rallied and seemed to feel much better until twelve o'clock Sunday night when he had a slight spasm and died within an hour from hemorrhage upon base of brain and cervical part of spine.
The deceased was thirty four years old, single and had no relatives in this country. he was a steady, industrious man and his untimely death brings sadness to many a heart.
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