Mrs. Margaret Hammond
Was About To Board A Train
To Accompany Her Daughter to Philadelphia—One of a Family or 32—Aunt of A. N. Hammond
Mrs. Margaret Hammond, 71 years of age, an aunt of Albert N. Hammond of Woodstock Valley, with whom she made her home, dropped dead at the Putnam railway station at 6 o’clock Saturday evening.
She had been driven in from the Hammond home that afternoon in company with her daughter, Mrs. John A. McGuigan of Philadelphia, and was accompanying her home for an extended visit. Leaving the waiting room Mrs. Hammond and her daughter went down the subway and up the middle steps. As they reached the top the older lady gave a little gasp and sank to the ground, dead.
Bystanders tendered instant aid and the body instant aid and the body was removed to the baggage room and Dr. Russell summoned, who pronounced the death due to heart failure. Dr. J. B. Kent, medical examiner, also viewed the body.
Mrs. McGuigan was almost prostrated by the awful shock. Instead of taking her mother home for a visit she and Mr. and Mrs. Hammond escorted her body to Ledyard for burial. The funeral services were conducted by the Quaker society of which Mrs. Hammond was a member.
She will be greatly missed. Her life was a record of good deeds and charity in its best meaning found in her a worthy exponent. One of a family of 32 children, both her parents having been previously married and bringing the offspring of their first marriages to live together in the new family. For a time she lived at Hampton and will be remembered by the older residents.
Taken from: ? [Clipping was kept by Clara McGuigan among her papers.]
Was On Her Way to Daughter’s Home in Philadelphia
Mrs. Margaret Hammond, aged 70, of Philadelphia, dropped dead at the Putnam railroad station Saturday evening about six o’clock. Death was due to valvular heart trouble of which she had been a sufferer for some time.
Mrs. Hammond had been living with her nephew, Albert N. Hammond and wife, Woodstock Valley, for over a year. She was in poor health and her daughter had come from Philadelphia to take her home with her. Notwithstanding the bad weather they decided to start Saturday afternoon so a public conveyance went to the Valley after them. They arrived in Putnam just as the New York express was pulling out and, although the driver endeavored to hold the train for his passengers, they missed it. They sat in that waiting room and had decided that they would go to New London on the six o’clock train and there catch the Federal express for their destination. Mrs. Hammond was apparently feeling as well as usual. Just before their train came in Mrs. Hammond was assisted by her daughter down the subway stairs and up the flight between tracks 2 and 3 where the New London train leaves. As she reached the top of the stairs she collapsed. Passengers waiting for the train rushed to assist them and Dr. J. J. Russell was summoned. The body was taken to the baggage room on a stretcher. Medical examiner Dr. J. B. Kent was summoned and gave permission for the removal of the body and it was taken to Ballard & Clark’s undertaking rooms.
Mrs. Hammond’s husband died some years ago, and her daughter, Mrs. John I. McGuigan, who lives with her husband, who is a doctor, at 1016 Drexel Road, Philadelphia, who was with her, is the only near relative who survives.
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