- Date
- 1929-10-16
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island archipelago
- Participants
- Charles S. "Harry" Moore (victim)
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimecommunityheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Harry Moore, engineer of the Charlevoix–Beaver Island mail boat identified by the report as James B. Sanford, was injured at Beaver Island when a boy ran into him on a bicycle. The October 25, 1929 notice says Moore died at Charlevoix Hospital on the preceding Wednesday and that his remains were taken to Manistee for funeral services.
Evidence and limits
The date is reconstructed from the issue’s “last week Wednesday” wording. The source supplies no exact injury date, location within Beaver Island, age, full name of the boy, or medical details beyond the fatal outcome. This record is episode-qualified and is not merged with other Harry Moore mentions in the held corpus.
Open questions
- Can a death certificate, funeral notice, or Manistee cemetery record establish Moore’s full identity and dates?
- Was the “James B. Sanford” wording a newspaper error for the James E. Sanford identified in the 1926 notices?
- Are there an earlier injury report or employer records identifying the bicycle rider and the incident location?
See also
Sources
- Charlevoix County Herald, October 25, 1929, notice of Harry Moore’s death.Reports that Moore was injured at Beaver Island when struck by a boy on a bicycle, died at Charlevoix Hospital the preceding Wednesday, was taken to Manistee for burial, and had been engineer of the Charlevoix–Beaver Island mail boat James B. Sanford. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 1 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Death of Harry Moore After a Beaver Island Injury”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-harry-moore-1929/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix County Herald, October 25, 1929, notice of Harry Moore’s death..
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