Johnson-Laurens County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stewart, Jakie D. May 19, 1923
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The Soperton News 25 May 1923 FP
                         KILLED IN SAW AT FATHER'S MILL
                 Jakie Stewart, 19, of Johnson County, Is Victim
 WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga., May 19th. -- Jakie Stewart, 19 son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie 
R. Stewart, who reside on the line of Johnson and Laurens counties, was 
instantly killed about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon when he fell into a running 
saw at the sawmill of his father on the Johnson County farm of Mr. Stewart. 
Young Jakie was setting headblocks at the sawmill, a job he had been at for 
five years and his father was the sawyer.
 Jakie had squared the log and was making a particular cut. He fastened down 
the hook at the head block as usual and to keep the piece of timber from 
warping and to hold it squarely in place, he jumped across to the nearby 
canthook, grabbed it, and fastened it to the log, holding with full strength 
until his position neared the flying saw. All at once, his hold slipped, the 
canthook loosing its mooring in the timber and the boy fell bodily down acroos 
the death producing implement.
 His body was almost severed in two parts at the stomach and a most gruesome 
calamity was beheld by the onlookers as the drive belt flew off the wheel and 
the saw came to a standstill. An axe was secured and the young man's lifeless 
body cut from the fastenings. His father, sawing at the time, grabbed the boy 
as the saw stopped but to late to save him. The saw had cut through the stomach 
to the backbone and death was instantaneous.
 Jakie had been a good boy all his life and the family is one of the leading 
ones of that section. He had been prevailed upon Friday afternoon to defer a 
fishing trip with a young man friend of Dublin to finish up some hurry orders 
then at the mill and according to his father's wishes he remained at his post 
only to meet this fate. Funeral services and interment place this afternoon at 
Piney Mount Church, the services being conducted by the Rev. Mr. McCullough of 
Vidalia.

Additional Comments:
Jakie was born to Archie R. Stewart and Rebecca Dawson Stewart, both buried at 
Piney Mount.

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