Life
- Died
- Feb. 10, 1870
Career
- Fireman — Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad
Unknown–Feb. 10, 1870
Biography
Jonathan Cousins was the fireman on Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad locomotive No. 9 on February 10, 1870, when its boiler suddenly exploded, killing him and the locomotive’s engineer.
He and another fireman “were found, bruised and bleeding, beneath the fragments of the wreck, and conveyed to the National Hotel, where the best of medical attention was rendered to alleviate their intense suffering, but all was in vain. …They were gathered in the cold embrace of death at a late hour that night.”
Cousins, a resident of Providence, Tennessee, left behind a wife and two children.