Jewel, Please check the Weakley County website for any obituaries prior to November 1906. All available issues of the Dresden Enterprise have been abstracted and are available there. Martha Found one of them!!! II copied it below in case it might be of help to others. Thanks for all your work, Martha. Jewel Friday, October 23, 1903 THE DRESDEN ENTERPRISE Dresden, Tennessee Frank ATKINSON Mr. E. T. REAVIS received the sad news early Tuesday morning that his brother-in-law, Mr. Frank ATKINSON, an employee of the Centreville branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, had been killed near Dickson that morning. ATKINSON, a brakeman, was riding in the caboose and just after pulling out of Dickson he heard an unusual noise beneath the caboose and undertook to look under the car to ascertain the trouble. As he swung down the rapidly moving train brought his head in contact with the fence at a cattle guard, crushing his skull. He was carried to his home at Dickson and died shortly thereafter without regaining consciousness. The remains were brought here on the noon train Wednesday and interred at West Union burying. Deceased was born and reared in this county, east of Dresden, and was the son of Mrs. Martha ATKINSON; he was about 33 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. His wife was, prior to her marriage, Miss Minnie REAVIS, daughter of Uncle Lonney REAVIS. Frank was a model young man, a devout christian, sober, industrious and esteemed by all who knew him. His friends were those who had known him from childhood, and he stood high in the estimation of his comrades on the railroad.When the sad news reached his wife, she was prostrated with grief and it required the best of medical skill to revive her. The bereaved family have the sympathy of a host of friends. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.