Moved from Old Texas, AL to Wallace, LA in 1888. Daily Sentinel Nacogdoches, TX, Thursday, October 25 1917 A MELROSE CITIZEN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED Team Hitched to Peanut Picker Ran Away and Threw Him Off Crushing His Head and Leg. From the undertaking department of Casob, Monk, & Co., who prepared the body for burial. The Sentinel gets the information of a horrible accident in the Melrose community in which a good citizen lost his life in a run-away accident yesterday afternoon. The particulars as best they can be obtained, are about as follows: Mr. D. N. Wilkerson [sic] a well known citizen of the community, was riding on a peanut picker, and when between the Thomas place and J. W. Garrett's, the team became frightened while going down an incline and ran away, throwing Mr. Wilkerson [sic] out, and in the fall his head and one of his lower limbs was crushed between one of the wheels of the machine and a tree. It is presumed that the team was frightened with the rattle or fall of some cans being carried on the picker. Mr. Wilkerson [sic] lived less than an hour. The deceased is survived by his widow, five daughters, and six sons. He was a member of the Baptist church, and those who know him say that he was a good christian [sic] man and a good citizen, well liked by the people of the community in which he resided. The funeral service will be held at the cemetery at Melrose at 2:30 this afternoon, and will be conducted by Rev. Gentry of Rusk. The whole community has been saddened with the deplorable accident, and all business and work in the community will be suspended this afternoon that people may turn out to the funeral service end of obituary "If I had it to do over again I would."