Fulton County IN Archives Obituaries.....Stingley, Son May 1880
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The Rochester Sentinel
Saturday, May 22, 1880

A distressing occurrence by which a bright little boy between three and four 
years of age met with a horrible death, took place near Fulton on Friday of 
last week. The facts as near as we have been able to learn them are as 
follows: The child killed was the son of Mathias STINGLEY who met his death 
only a few months ago by his team running away and throwing him out of the 
wagon against a fence. His widow and children live at the above named place 
near by which is a school house. This little boy being too young to attend the 
school was left to play about the school building and in the house yard and 
road. On the day mentioned he was playing about the school house at an hour 
when school was in session. With no one about to guard him, he climbed over a 
fence into a field in which was a vicious ram. He was hardly over until the 
ram "made for him" giving him a terrible butting. The little fellow made great 
exertions to retreat from his enemy and was partially over the fence when the 
fatal work was done. With the little fellow's hands upon the fence trying to 
escape, the ram continued butting him in the back, jamming him against the 
fence until life was extinct. While all this was going on, the young man in 
charge of the school only a few rods away, heard the cries of distress of the 
child but did not go to learn the cause of its screams until too late to save 
its life. It is a great affliction to the family that only a few months ago 
was so greatly bereaved.



Additional Comments:
Wendell C. Tombaugh



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