Lamar-Pike County GaArchives News.....Two Sudden Deaths February 26, 1885
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Barnesville Gazette February 26, 1885

Last Thursday the colored population of Barnesville were somewhat shocked by 
two sudden deaths occurring among their number.

Wiley Kendall, an aged colored man, who was well thought of by both white and 
colored, was plowing a mule and suddenly dropped dead in the furrow. Perhaps 
it was apoplexy. 

The second was a most horrible one and makes the whole being quiver to think 
of it. David Trice, a colored man living just out of the corporate limits of 
town on the road to Howard’s mill, had a grown daughter who was subject to 
having spasms. In the absence of her parents Thursday, a boy was left to look 
after her. Just before she was found dead the boy saw her sitting before the 
fire with a bed quilt around her. It is probable that the quilt caught fire 
and she burned to death. When the boy came in to see about her she had gotten 
back to the rear of the house and all her clothes had burned off, except the 
dress binding about her neck and the belt of the dress at her waist. Life had 
departed and the bed was just blazing up and would soon put the house where it 
would have been burned, but it was saved.


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