The Newspaper Cutting Story
In 2009, 127 years after the accident on the railway, my father Tom, a grandson of John and Catherine, was searching for a cutting he had taken from the newspaper. He said it was from around 1995 and that it was no longer where he had left it. He accused me of throwing it out in an over zealous tidying up effort. Those who know me would find this an unlikely possibility. He also blamed the home help and my sister-in-law. My daughter remembers an earlier occasion when the same piece of paper disappeared and a similar hunt was going on. It must have been found on that occasion but had disappeared again by 2009. It was clear, despite the fact that the cutting was misplaced at least twice, that it held an importance for my father and that at the age of 97 he was quite upset that he was unable to locate it. Later in 2009 my father went into hospital and then into a nursing home. I collected and removed all the family memorabilia for safe keeping as the house was then unoccupied. During this collection I 91
