This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boatman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lg.2ADE/1151 Message Board Post: Obituary of C. E. Boatman From the Clark County (IL) Democrat, 22 February 1899 C. E. Boatman of Paris, died on Tuesday of last week while under the influence of chloroform administered by some surgeons who were to perform an operation on him. Boatman had dropped a heavy stick of wood on the great toe of one foot, crushing the member so badly that amputation was necessary. He suffered so much pain that he asked the surgeons to use an anestehtic, and his system was too weak to withstand the chloroform.