Bartow-Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Quarles, Jesse August 18, 1885
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The Cherokee Advance 21 Aug 1885 p 3 
Tuesday morning last about 8 o'clock, as the passenger train on the M. & N. 
Ga. R. R. drawn by H. C. Clement engine, Will Chester, engineer, was slowly 
backing down to the depot at Marietta, Jesse Quarles, a brother of Dock 
Quarles who lived at this place a short while ago, was run over and 
instantly killed, and his body fearfully mangled.  He was walking on the W. 
A. side track and a heavy W. & A. freight was passing him on the main track 
when he stepped over on the M. & N. Ga. track, not more than 6 feet from the 
approaching train.  Before he could be made to hear or pushed off the track 
the rear coach passed over him.  He was 50 years old and partially deaf, and 
evidently did not hear or notice the approaching train, although it is 
claimed by some that he stepped on the track with suicidal intent.  At the 
coroner's inquest the M. & N. Ga. railroad was entirely exonerated from any 
blame.  The remains of Quarles were carried to Adairsville for interment 
Wednesday.  He leaves a wife, no children.  He had two or three fingers 
mashed off coupling cars on the M. & N. Ga. R. R. last year.  Since then he 
has been night watchman at their railroad shops until about two months ago 
when he quit working for the company.

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