Submitted by:  Timothy D. Hudson



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, April 28, 1883, page 2, column 4
	[From the] Farmerville Gazette:

A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

On Sunday evening Buff Farrar, aged about 18 years, and the son of Widow 
Nancy Farrar living near Spearsville returned home after visiting some friends 
during the day.  He had been riding a mule, and had for a halter a small grass 
rope, one end of which was tied around the mule's neck, the other had a loop 
for the purpose of keeping the rope on the horn of the saddle.  When Farrar 
reached his mother's house, he alighted from the saddle, took it off the mule's 
back and threw it to one side; the loop of the grass rope passing over the hand 
of the young man while he was unsaddling.  The noise occasioned by throwing the 
saddle frightened the mule; and it jumped, throwing young Farrar from his feet.  
The mule then commenced to run, dragging the prostrate body of the young man by 
his arm, for a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile from the house before it 
was stopped, by the head of the unfortunate young man being dragged under roots 
of a stump at one side of the road.  When the friends reached the body of young 
Farrar he was dead, the skull of his head being literally crushed to a jelly.
Young Farrar was well grown for his age, industrious, and universally respected 
by all who knew him.  His distressing death has cast a gloom over the neighborhood 
in which he lived.

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