“Dan Egbert, who lives on his father’s farm, on Miller’s Run, fourteen miles from the city, met with a severe accident last Monday evening. He went out to the field to feed the horses. While emptying a basket of corn one of the animals bit another one, when the latter wheeled around and kicked, its heels coming in contact with the side of Egbert’s face, rendering him senseless for a while, and knocking several of his teeth loose.”
“He came to the city Tuesday, and visited Dr. Dennis. His case was a serious one, as examination proved, for the left side of the upper jaw bone was broken, the fracture extending upward a couple of inches, and three or four inches to the left. He underwent the necessary dental operation, and started homeward.”
“Egbert had made arrangements for marriage, the ceremony to be performed in a day or two, but he didn’t let the wound interfere. Wednesday the nuptial knot was tied that will unite him and a daughter of John G. Wurster1, of Chillicothe street, for life, or until death them do part.”2
- Mary Belle Wurster Egbert
- Serious accident. (1880, October 30). Portsmouth Times, p. 3.
