"Charles Hubbard of Sidney died, drawing ice from the river, caught under sleigh runners."...death notice in Sidney, NY newspaper around 1900.....
Just fourteen words complete it
The ending of a life
No mention of a father
Of children or a wife
It might have been a sunny day
Or one deluged with snow
Or just with winter’s keen cold breath
I guess we’ll never know
I smell the sweating horses
Hear creaking of a sleigh
As Charles tugged and held the lines
The last time on that day
It might have been a patch of ice
A small uneven dip
That caused the team to buck and lunge
And start that fatal slip
About a hundred years ago
From a river hauling ice
Charles Hubbard slipped and fell
And ended then his life.
By Gerry Hubbard June, 20005
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