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Milton Miranda is Only One of lll-

Fated Family Who Met Natural Death

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j Milton Mirnndii. tl'e last of an

Ioil pioneer family, .'^n

;homestead was the mily oullding^ySa^;

' th e site up :o hi s death. He

se d also th e survey-and constrncittblg

of those iron pathways of'. modaific

progress and .-.ivniiatior: to whlch'zaoj^

be credited the beginning niui g'ro'VtSbf

nihi the pro.-perlty _o the town,. 1^'i

which has been the constant. carrtePrbi;^

grief and. sorrow into hTj houaehblii^

At las't he.'hiaiseif, at 'Uio

. eniy-nine was^ run down by the-'grli:^

monster

.of

steeL

while,

going to;

' h6mo^,;6e,:

ItiSF., -: ;it -

swifchiag^at Morraw'. bggked^ii^i-

o a Mir,. JccoekiTig :Sina

tlie smoking 4:ar.'

tender Mf th e engine.,

h im b e f o r e th e t ra in c ou ld

He died a t hl a home tw-o

f rom . in j ur ie s sostalncd 'b y

d e n t H e was. b o r n F e b .

William Miranda-jr

:8on..'. Dt'-;;w.^

liam Miranda Sr. was^ boriL A^fiji^

1831 a n d w a s kille d a t

tion' oa tb't- Fleveland'-

railroad February'^3,

a brakeman .and was

r e a r end of th e engine in th e

pulling a car. pin to cq i th e

off ' v^hen .bis footA slipped,

him fall ^dlrtycDy .oil. t3e ' rHJl .tTeVj^

and the t6Eu*ir..oe'the;

over killing Kl:;-:

, . Such was th e IiIstory.oE th e

Ied family whose 1

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GEORGE

MIR ND

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OMMITS SUI IDE

Upholds Family Tradition

In Meeting

Violent ^ j

Death ' i

due \ \ \ 1

George cl. Miranc?a, 65, ende5 his '

life a t his home in Morrow * l a s t

Thursday night shooting himself |

through the heart with a

shotgun

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The act was committed in a work-J

shop in the rear of the Miranda?

home. ]

Despondency

over

continuid

03

health during the past two yesLrs ^

was assigned by relatives as rei;S0n^^

for the.suicide. V:It was poi:

dfe#^ihat

jfSH^da family

s^eral ge , ^

tions have met with violent di^ath^

the majority of them having' be^n

kil led in r a i i road acc iden t s . ; . .

Miranda is sa id to have neen a

descendent o f th e f i r s t man to

construct a dwrelling house in the

village of Morrow. .

Sui*viving

are the

widow

and

one son. Earl, of Cincinnati. Fun-

eral services were held a t the resi-^

dence on Sunday afternoon with

interment in the Morrow