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Our Best Words, May 1912, p 3 c 4 George N. Robertson, born April 14, 1843. He was killed
March 8 by one of the fast trains on the Big Four railroad near his
home in Shelbyville. His faithful wife and their one daughter,
Mrs. May Pearson, were left in sorrow and poverty. Four children
preceded the father to the other world. The deceased was a member of
the Christian church and was a sober, industrious man, but partly deaf
and blind. He had a hard scrabble for fuel and daily bread. In the cold
weather, with a basket on his arm, he was picking up bits of coal along
the railroad track within the limits of the city, when the New York and
St. Louis express, running mile a minute, struck him to death
instantly. Rev. J. L. Douthit officiated at the funeral. During
his remarks the preacher could be ask why trains were allowed to run
through the city of over 4,000 population at such dangerous speed? Echo
answers, why?
