M.M.White undertaker WashingtonDC Matthias M. White undertaker of Washington , DC Fisk and Raymond metallic coffins

I believe the accident that killed Grenup was just up the street from M.M. White's coffin warehouse - think accident was at 6th and Pennsylvania and White was at 4th and Pennsylvania .

Run-over Fireman Monument A macabre monument set in marble. This is a monument/burial site of Benjamin Grenup, a 19th century DC fireman who died when he was run over by the firetruck. * Grenup is no longer believed to be 1st.

The weird thing about the monument is that it includes a sculptured relief graphically depicting the very act of Grenup being being crushed by the truck. The image of the wailing fireman behind the truck (yelling, one supposes to the other fireman about what has happened) is very dramatic. 

 The monument is located in a triangular plot bordered by an iron fence with bright red fire hydrants at each point. On the other side of the monument the plate reads: 

BENJAMIN C GRENUP Aged 24 Years Killed in the Discharge of his Duty. May 6, 1856 

 Benjamin Greenup, killed May 6, 1856, was thought to be the first DC Firemen killed in the line of duty. Greenup was died as a result of being run over by the wagon wheel of the fire truck. “In those days, pumps were powered by hand, not steam. The equipment wasn`t as heavy as later steam-powered engines and so was pulled by the firemen themselves rather than by horses. Greenup, a member of the Columbia Fire Company, was killed when the engine he was pulling down Pennsylvania Avenue on the way to a blaze collided with a lamppost, crushing him underneath the pumper`s wheels. Greenup was 24 and, according to the inscription on his monument in Glenwood Cemetery in Northeast Washington

This monument is erected by Columbia Engine Co. No. 1 To Perpetuate the Memory and Noble Deeds of a Gallant Fireman 

 A TRUER NOBLER TRUSTIER HEART MORE LOVING AND MORE LOYAL NEVER BEAT WITHIN A HUMAN BREAST