{"id":8428,"date":"1846-10-29T16:59:00","date_gmt":"1846-10-30T00:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:37:46","slug":"mcphee-neil-of-big-pond-a-fatal-accident-in-1846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/mcphee-neil-of-big-pond-a-fatal-accident-in-1846\/","title":{"rendered":"McPhee, Neil of Big Pond: A Fatal Accident in 1846"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A brief report in The Islander recalls a fatal accident in the woods at Big Pond, Lot 45. It names Neil McPhee and the family who survived him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newspaper notice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Distressing Accident \u2013 Mr. Neil McPhee, of Big Pond, Lot 45, while chopping firewood in the woods on the 3d instant, was killed by the falling of a tree. He was dreadfully mangled, and lived but two hours after the accident. The deceased has left a wife and six children to lament their loss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Published on 28 February 1846, the notice places the accident on 3 February. It does not name his wife or children, give his age or identify his burial place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report preserves a personal loss within the everyday work of obtaining fuel. It also offers a starting point for tracing Neil\u2019s household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Islander, 28 February 1846; transcribed by Ronald J. Reid, The Island Register<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phyllis Dand\u2019s Islander vital-statistics index, 28 February 1846<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief report in The Islander recalls a fatal accident in the woods at Big Pond, Lot 45. It names […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pioneer-cemetery-obituaries"],"gutslider_comments":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8712,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}