Rapides County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Simpson, Henry Lewis "Little Buddy" September 27, 1902
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Weekly Town Talk, Alexandria, Rapides, LA, Oct 4, 1902, Pg 4 Col 1
Henry Lewis "Little Buddy" Simpson

s/o William Everett Simpson & Elizbeth "Lizzie" Florentine Borland

Brother of Mary Antoinette "Nettie" Simpson Peart and Ilda Garnett Simpson Holly

Family story goes:

"Little Buddy" was killed when his horse spooked at the blowing of a cotton gin
whistle. He was 
dragged through a fence and died of his injuries. Family stories say he was buried
in the vicinity of 
Lecompte/Cheneyville, Rapides, LA. (Family story was a little off per newspaper
account of the 
accident below)

The Weekly Town Talk, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, LA, Oct 4, 1902, Page 4 Column 1

"Terrible Accident at Richland

Bud Simpson, a six-year-old boy, son of Mrs. Lizzie Simpson, who lives at Richland,
14 miles below 
Alexandria on Red River, this parish, was killed on Saturday afternoon in a horrible
manner.

A.F. Scroggs, who lives near Richland, came to this city Saturday night to procure a
casket at the 
Hemenway establishment.

Bud Simpson was playing near a gin house in the neighborhood at about 2 o'clock
Saturday 
afternoon. A colored man rode up to the gin and got off of his horse to go inside
the gin. He noticed 
the boy go to the horse and told him to let the horse alone, that he might get hurt,
and went on into 
the gin, when he turned and saw that the boy had hold of the halter. At that time
steam escaping from 
the gin-house scared the horse and the animal began to run around in a circle with
the little boy. In 
the meantime the boy had slipped the halter line over his wrist and it tightened so
that he could not 
get it loose. Bystanders tried to stop the horse but were unsuccessful. The horse
dragged the boy 
from R. V. Hathorn's gin lot to his cow pen, then knocked down a panel of fence, and
then ran back 
to the gin lot and around to the front of Mr. Hathorn's house where the boy's body
fell to the ground, 
the arm having been pulled from its socket and the body was released. The arm was
still attached to 
the halter when the horse was caught. The clothing of the boy was completely
stripped from the 
body. Mrs. Simpson is a sister of Mrs. R. Y. Hathorn and lives on Mr. Hathorn's
plantation. Her friends 
deeply sympathise with her in her great bereavement, which is almost more than she
can bear."

Additional Comments:
Born January 28, 1895 in Rapides Parish, Louisiana

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