Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brooks, Harris October 1881
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, OCTOBER 21, 1881

NEIGHBORHOOD News

From The Cartersville Free Press - - - - One of the most horrible deaths we 
ever recorded happened yesterday. Mr. Harris Brooks, the junior of Brooks 
Bros. Saw Mill near Rockmart, was endeavoring to put a belt on a pulley that 
had fallen off, when he was caught and drawn around the shaft one time, and 
his thigh was torn from the trunk of his body and his foot from his leg just 
above the ankle. The poor unfortunate man died in twenty or thirty minutes. 
This was a heart rendering scene for his father, mother and wife, all of whom 
were soon by the dying man's side. He died in the saw dust where he fell. This 
sad calamity happened yesterday morning at 8 or 9 o'clock. God knows we deeply 
sympathize in the bereavement of his friends, especially the poor wife.


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