Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....James L. Sosebee 1902
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(Cedartown Standard, January 16, 1902) 
Mr. James L. Sosebee, was instantly killed this morning at 8:40 o’clock in the 
wood shop of the Alabama & Georgia Iron Co. His body was horribly mangled 
around the main shaft of the water wheel under the floor of the shop where no 
one witnessed his swift and awful end. Just as The Standard was going to press 
the news came over the phone, and a reporter hurried to the scene of the 
tragedy. Mr. Sosebee and Mr. Frank Knighton worked together in the wood shop, 
and Mr. Morgan Brooks came across from the foundry for a piece of wood for a 
pattern. Mr. Sosebee proceeded to get the plank, and left the wood shop with 
hatchet in hand going under the floor in search of the material. In passing 
under the main shaft of the water wheel, his clothing caught on a set-screw and 
his body was hurled around at a terrific speed frightfully mangling his body 
and killing him instantly. His brains were scattered in every direction, every 
bone in his body being broken, and the flesh torn and lacerated. The shaft was 
making over a hundred revolutions a minute, and the body was wrapped two or 
three times around the iron instrument of death. Mr. Knighton, who was at his 
place at the work bench, heard the noise in the rear end of the shop, and ran 
immediately to the scene. Looking through the hole in the floor where the large 
belt passed to the machinery above, he saw the mangled form of his fellow 
laborer whirling round with the flying shaft, and quickly shut off the water at 
the wheel. The horrible sight unnerved him, and running out to the pig yard at 
the furnace, he reported the accident to Mr. N. H. Swayne, the general manager. 
The latter phoned for the physicians, not knowing the extent of Mr. Sosebee’s 
injuries. Dr. O. Van Wood, the company’s surgeon, promptly responded, as did 
Dr. Liddell, Dr. Hines and several friends of the dead man. The undertaker took 
charge of the body, after Dr. Wood had given it proper surgical attention. Mr. 
Sosebee was over sixty-five years old, and had been in the employ of the 
Furnace Company and East & West road for over twenty years in Cedartown. He was 
born in Pickens County, Ga., and joined the Confederate army when quite a young 
man, having a brave and gallant record in that service. He leaves a widow, 
crushed and broken by the shock of her husband’s untimely end and to whom the 
sympathy of all goes out most feelingly. (Cedartown Standard, January 16, 1902) 


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