Washington County KS Archives Obituaries.....BLAKESLEY, James R.  January 12, 1883
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The Washington Republican
Washington County
Friday
January 12, 1883

James R. BLAKESLEY and son, living 3 1/2 miles southwest from Washington, was
getting firewood from the creek near their residence last Friday. The father
stepped up into a forked tree, which projected over the creek, to chop off a
limb, while the son returned to the house to get a chain with which to draw the
limb off the ice. When the son returned about ten minutes later he found his
father lying dead upon the ice, with the whole left side of his skull crushed in
and the flesh of his face reduced to a mass of jelly. The limb had been cut off
and was also lying on the ice. It is presumed that when the limb fell it struck
the unfortunate man, knocking him from the fork to the ice below, a distance of
about eleven feet, and that he struck squarely upon the left side of his head,
killing him instantly. Mr. Blakesley leaves a wife and two children to mourn
their loss. 


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