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I didn't research this, but interesting Comment, should be researched by someone from the area
Township and Borough Listings for Washington, Pennsylvania
near the Bottom of the page:
Life in Hopewell had its good times and its bad. Natural events such as the day in 1839, when James McElroy's flour mill burned to the ground were devastating; and the time in 1837, when three of the McKeever children died of scarlet fever; or the cold wet night in December of 1866, when Robert Dinsmore was murdered in his home by would-be robbers, as his wife and two small daughters watched in horror. After confessing to the crime, Robert Fogler was convicted and hanged, his body being interred outside the fence of the graveyard at Georgetown. Much later, on September 24 of 1903, Samuel T. Ferguson and his team of horses were blown to bits with hidden charges of dynamite as he carried money for the payroll to workers on the construction of the Wabash Railroad. The site was a culvert far down Seminary Hill. Two culprits were apprehended due to the skilled detective work of men in charge and one was later hanged for the deed. Unfortunately, the families of the workers whose pay was needed to survive, went hungry, since most of the money was never found.
Township and Borough Listings for Washington, Pennsylvania
near the Bottom of the page:
Life in Hopewell had its good times and its bad. Natural events such as the day in 1839, when James McElroy's flour mill burned to the ground were devastating; and the time in 1837, when three of the McKeever children died of scarlet fever; or the cold wet night in December of 1866, when Robert Dinsmore was murdered in his home by would-be robbers, as his wife and two small daughters watched in horror. After confessing to the crime, Robert Fogler was convicted and hanged, his body being interred outside the fence of the graveyard at Georgetown. Much later, on September 24 of 1903, Samuel T. Ferguson and his team of horses were blown to bits with hidden charges of dynamite as he carried money for the payroll to workers on the construction of the Wabash Railroad. The site was a culvert far down Seminary Hill. Two culprits were apprehended due to the skilled detective work of men in charge and one was later hanged for the deed. Unfortunately, the families of the workers whose pay was needed to survive, went hungry, since most of the money was never found.
