In the final paragraph of one of the many news stories about the accident, Donald Moynahan said,
"I must have been born under a lucky star. When I was just a kid, I was in a car with my grandfather and my brother and the car was in an accident. Both my grandfather and my brother were critically injured and were in the hospital for months. I didn't get a scratch.
I guess I better touch wood."
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| The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) 22 Jan 1964, Wed · Page 1 |
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| The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) 22 Jan 1964, Wed · Page 3 |
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| Front Page: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SAguW2jnL4UC&dat=19640114&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |
- Who was Donald Moynahan?
- Could I find details of the crash he was in as a young boy with his grandfather?
Who was Donald Moynahan?
From all of the news stories that I read about the accident, I determined a few facts about Donald in 1964 at the time of the accident:
- He was thirty-years-old
- He lived at RR #1, St Joachim, Ontario
- He worked at Don's Cartage in Tecumseh, Ontario
- He was married
- For the past 2 1/2 years, the three men traveled- back and forth to work together
The only possible Donald Moynahan that I had in my ancestry tree who would have been born in the 1930s was my third cousin (once removed) Donald (Sylvio) Moynahan who was born September 1933 to Joseph W. (1910-1978) and Diana Marie (Duquette) Moynahan (1912-1997)
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| Descendants of Timothy Moynahan (1847-1929) and Julia Ann Carr (1849-1925) of Tilbury, Ontario |
I confirmed that this was the same Donald through the 1974 Voters list where I found a Donald Moynahan (truck driver) living at RR #1, St Joachim with his wife Noella.
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| Source: Ancestry: Title: Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 |
Donald and Noella Moynahan are buried at the St Joachim Roman Catholic Cemetery, Essex County, ON http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/1080415
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| Photos courtesy of Diane Quinn [2008], additions from Denise George Klarer, Bob Garant, Douglas & Donna Gammon Indexed by Diane Quinn |
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| The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) · 24 Apr 1986, Thu · Page 75 Downloaded on Aug 29, 2019 Clipped By: cindiforeman Thu, Aug 29, 2019 |
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| The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) · 29 Sep 1997, Mon · Page 18 |
More About The Accident
There are MANY stories about the tragic accident in the newspapers. It was covered extensively and you can read the newspapers online for free at Google (The Windsor Star) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SAguW2jnL4UC
Visit the front page at: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SAguW2jnL4UC&dat=19640114&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
For this blog post, I would like to honour the four people who were less fortunate than my cousin Donald Moynahan and did not survive this terrible accident. May they rest in peace.
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| Rest in Peace |
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| I could not find a photo of Mrs. Betty Gillett Rest in Peace The Windsor Star · 14 Jan 1964, Tue · Page 4 |
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| Rest In Peace |
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| Scene of the accident; Source: Windsor Star; January 14, 1964 |
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| Front Page: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SAguW2jnL4UC&dat=19640114&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |
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| Front Page: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SAguW2jnL4UC&dat=19640114&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |
(2.) Could I find details of the crash he was in as a young boy with his grandfather?
Sadly, the answer is no. But I am confident that I will locate details of the earleir accident that cousin Donald Moynahan survived as I continue my newspaper research of the Moynahans of Essex county 1830-2019
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