The Ouachita Telegraph - Son of Scott Kelley Accidentally Killed

Date: Oct 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, April 16, 1887
Page 2, Columns 3 and 4

FRANKLIN.
Shocking Accident.
 On last Friday the 1st inst., a lad aged about 7 years, son of Mr. Scott
Kelley, who lives on Turkey Creek brake in the Holly Grove neighborhood, met
with a terrible death.
 The little fellow had been left by his father, who was hauling rails round
the field, to watch a burning tree close to the fence.  When Scott Kelley
returned, he found to his horror his child a corpse, his body badly burned.
A limb from the tree had fallen and fractured his skull.  When he fell, his
clothing caught fire and almost cremated the remains. – Sun.

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