Lawrence County KyArchives Obituaries.....Sammons , John January 1898
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Big Sandy Mews January 28th 1898
Horrible: Fatality to an aged citizen of this county:

John Sammons, aged 76 years, met an awful death in an unusual manner at his home 
six miles south of Louisa last Monday evening.

He owned a vicious jackass which was usually kept tied in the stable. At this 
time if had broken loose and when Mr. Sammons went into the barn the animal 
plunged forward and caught him by the shoulder, tearing the entire sided of his 
coat away. It then struck him with its fore feet, knocking him down, after which 
it jumped on his body with his knees. The last act crushed the bones in the old 
gentleman’s breast. The jack was biting him savagely all the time and kept it up 
until the prostrate man’s wife arrived on the scene and plunged a pitchfork into 
the beast.

Mr. Sammons was carried to the house and lingered twelve hours of terrible 
suffering from broken bones and lacerated flesh, when death relieved him.

He was the father of John G. and “Doc”, and an uncle of Henry and Will of this 
place.

The jack is said to have injured one or two persons before this occurrence.

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