Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Brooks, W. Pinkney November 4, 1893
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Clay County Advance
Brooks and Miller's water gin and mill, on the Goodwater Road three miles 
southwest of this place, was destroyed by fire on last Friday evening about one 
o'clock. Tha origin of the fire is unknown but is supposed to have started from 
matches ignited by the saws of the gin. Soon after returning from dinner the gin 
was started, and Mr. Pink Brooks, a young man about eighteen years old and son 
of Jas. Brooks one of the proprietors of the gin went into the lint room to 
carry a basket of cotton to the press. Before filling his basket, he discovered 
the fire coming from flew of the gin, and before he could, get outside he was so 
severely burned that he died the next evening. This sad dispensation of 
Providence is a sore bereavement to the distressed family, and the great loss to 
them and of their property is not to compared to the irreparable they have 
sustained in the death their child.

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