Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Singletary, Martha Ellen January 1921
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, February 4, 1921
Accident Fatal To Little Child

Little Martha Ellen, the two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Buster A. 
Singletary, who reside about five miles east of Cairo on the Cairo-Thomasville 
road, was killed in a very peculiar accident about nine o'clock on last 
Saturday morning.

The child was in the yard near the house playing and sweeping.  There is a wood 
scaffold beside the chimney at the end of the house and under this scaffold is 
a barrel in which there is a hen's nest.  It seems that the child went to the 
nest to see if there were any eggs.  Not being able to see when standing on the 
ground, the child attempted to climb up on the out sets of the base of the 
chimney.  In drawing over to look into the nest, it is believed that she 
slipped and either fell into the barrel and broker her neck, or fell between 
the scaffold and the house and got caught by her head, choking to death.

She was found in the barrel dead a few minutes after she had been seen 
sweeping, by her mother.  Death is believed to have been almost instantaneous.

The child's father had come to Cairo to do some trading and his wife 
immediately called him to get a doctor and to come to the child immediately.  
This was done, but when the doctor arrived, the child was dead.

It is said that the child had been going to the place to see if there were any 
eggs rather often.  She was unable to get them out of the barrel, but she 
always wanted to look and see the eggs.  Her parents are inclined to believe 
that she slipped while climbing and feel into the barrel, the blow of stroking 
the rim of the barrel being without force to break her neck.  Early reports 
reaching here were that she hanged herself by being caught by the head between 
the scaffold and the house.

The child was said to be bright and her parents were devoted to her.  The death 
was very sad and the grief-stricken parents and relatives have the sympathy of 
the community.

Funeral and interment took place in Pierce chapel Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 
2:30 o'clock. 


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