Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Buckbee, Lafayette 1859
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Greenville Independent, 1 Nov 1859

Fatal Accident At Lyons.  We have partially learned the particulars of a fatal
accident which occurred in Lyons village Thursday afternoon.  The particulars
which have come to our knowledge are these.  Two teams started out of the
village going towards Portland, each having on board a rather jovial company. 
The forward driver who had a buggy, went about opposite Peter Coon’s barn,
beckoned to the teamster in the rear to come on, intimating that it was a good
place to go by.  In making the attempt to pass the vehicles got hitched together
in some way so that the occupants of the buggy were violently thrown out upon
the ground.  Mr. Lafayette Buckbee, a middle aged man was in the buggy and was
pitched out headfirst, breaking his neck in the fall, from the effects of which
he died in a short time.  A young man by the name of Gidds was injured, but not
seriously. — Ionia Gazette


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