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    1. [KYGARRAR] Old clipping -"Little Gilbert East's Life Crushed Beneath Wheels of Wagon"
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hurt, Anderson, Stamper, Ray, Simpson, Long, Newby, Tudor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xAB.2ACI/2155 Message Board Post: Again, no date: Gilbert, the little six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter East of Buckeye, had his little life crushed out beneath the wheels of a two horse wagon on last Saturday. The little fellow had come to town with his uncle, Barnett, the fifteen year old son of Mr. Owen East of Buckeye. They came for some cement and seed rye and after making their purchases started for home. When near the farm of Dr. J. B. Kinnaird on the Buckeye pike, near the foot of the "town hill". Barnett descended from the wagon and went across the fence at the side of the road for some purpose, leaving little Gilbert on the seat holding the lines. The restiveness of the mules in jerkng their heads probably jerked the little fellow from the seat and the mules moved forward, the front wheel of the wagon passing across the chest of the helpless little boy, and before his horror stricken uncle could reach him the little body was so crushed as to place him beyond recovery. A young man passing gathered him i! n his arms and hurried to town with him in his buggy, taking him to the house of Mr. J. D. Gulley, where medical aid was summoned and everything possible was done, but so seriously was the little body crushed that there was absolutely no hope and he died within an hour. The parents were at once summoned, and the grief of the heart broken mother at the sudden death of her little son was distressing. For a while whe could not comforted, and it was some time before the kindly ladies who surrounded her in their efforts to be of assistance, could persuade her to leave the little body to be prepared for burial. The remains were taken to the parental home near Buckeye on Saturday afternoon and on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock all that was mortal, the little bruised and broken body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Buckeye.

    11/07/2003 08:25:04