Blount County AlArchives Obituaries.....Bates, John A. March 23, 1887
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The Lamar News, March 31, 1887
The Lamar News (Lamar County, AL)
March 31, 1887 Page 3

A very shocking accident occurred near Anderson, Blount County, on 23rd, a Mr. 
Jno. A. Bates had just returned to the field to plow when a cold rain and 
sleet began to fall, and he stopped by a large tree for shelter, when another 
tree fell upon him and crushed him into the ground.  When he was found one of 
his hands was still on his plow handle, though his legs and arms were badly 
broken in several places, and the brains from his shattered skull were found 
sticking to the tree by which he was supposed to have been standing.  He was a 
good man and leaves a wife and five little children.

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