Coffee County GaArchives News.....A Big Boy December 18 1879
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Marietta Journal
William Rickerson, of Coffee County, Georgia, died on the 24th of November, 
being at that time eighteen years of age.  It is doubtful if there is another 
person in the United States who at that age attained the weight of this 
remarkable boy.  He was known far and wide as the "fat boy of Coffee County", 
and people came from long distances to see him.  at the time of his death, he 
weighed five hundred and fifty-six pounds, and was apparently in good health.  
The cause of his death was suffocation.  His father, the late Ivey Rickerson, 
was a man of ordinary size and his mother, who is still living, is a lady of 
small stature.  it required a coffin three feet wide and twenty-six inches in 
depth to hold the body.

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From Deaths Reported in Cobb County, Georgia, Newspapers - Volume I

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