John Ladner

DESCRIPTION: John Ladner leaves PEI to find work in Saint John. Failing that, he goes to Maine and works six years in Madison. Thanksgiving morning he is crushed by logs he is rolling to a stream to be floated to the mill. Doctors cannot save him. He dies at 23.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1947 (Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi)
KEYWORDS: death lumbering memorial
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Nov 29, 1900 - probable date of the death of John Ladner (see NOTE)
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Dibblee/Dibblee-FolksongsFromPrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 40-41, "John Ladner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 60-61,248, "John Ladner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-21FolksongsFromPrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 13-17,80, "John Ladner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi 26, "John Ladner" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Din040 (Partial)
Roud #4061
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Peter Amberley [Laws C27]" (plot)
NOTES [81 words]: This song is item dC40 in Laws's Appendix II.
Dibblee/Dibblee-FolksongsFromPrinceEdwardIsland have a report that the grave "is in the Victoria West, P.E.I. Cemetery and it was dated circa 1895."
Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland: "John Ladner, 33, of Victoria West was killed in a logging accident in Madison, Maine, on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1900." - BS
Manny and Wilson note a version which dates the accident to 1884. One must suspect confusion with something else - RBW
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File: Din040

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