Francis Coole obituary
Transcribed and submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by Yvonne Arabie, May, 2009.

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source: The Weekly Gazette - Ville Platte, Louisiana  October 13, 1917

Little Child Crushed To Death

A little child of Francis Coole, who with his little brother and sister
are being cared for by their grandmother, Mrs. Francois Coole who lives
on the Soileau plantation a few miles south of town, was instantly killed
one day last week by an old wardrobe upsetting catching the little fellow
and crushing him to death.

The older ones of the family were in the field picking cotton.  The little
one had been left alone.  Playing about the wardrobe they upset it, pinning
them down.  The other two were unhurt. The children range in age from 2 to 5
years, the eldest a girl and two boys. The one crushed was the second child
and was just three years old.