Vermilion County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Brice, John C. November 25, 1899
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The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, November 29, 1899, Image 1

Buried With Masonic Honors.

Abbeville, La., Nov. 28 - Mr. J. C. Brice, who died from the result of injuries 
received during last week, was buried with Masonic honors on Saturday last by 
Rev. O. M. Lucas of the Baptist Church, and also a Mason. A large number of 
friends, relatives and Members of Abbeville Lodge No. 192 F. & A. M., of which 
the deceased was the respected Secretary, assembled at the grave to pay their 
respects to the departed dead.


2nd. Obituary:
source: The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, December 02, 1899, Image 3

A Heartrending Accident.

Last Friday morning about half past 9 o'clock the sugar mill on the farm of 
Mrs. R. D. Smith about 3 miles from Abbeville was the scene of a sad and 
terrible accident. John C. Brice, who was farming on the place had just began 
grinding his crop of cane, and while attempting to clean away some trash that 
had fallen in the cog wheels on the mill, his left arm became entangled in the 
fly wheel and in the twinkling of an eye he was whirled around, his left arm 
torn off at the shoulder and his body hurled some distance with great violence. 
He was picked up and carried to the house and Drs. R. J. Young and C. J. 
Edwards were summoned. On arriving it was found that he had received injuries 
necessarily fatal, a segment of the unfortunate man's windpipe having been torn 
out and great injury done to the throat. The doctors dressed his wounds, put a 
tracheotomy tube in his throat to enable him to breathe, and did all they could 
to alleviate his suffering. He rallied a little but the shock and violence had 
been so great that recovery was impossible, and he died at 6 o'clock Saturday 
morning. Mr. Brice was a mason and the fraternity buried him with appropriate 
honors Saturday evening. He leaves five children, some of them quite small, 
they have the heartfelt sympathies of the entire community in the terrible 
accident which has left them doubly orphanned (sic).



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