Halifax County NcArchives Obituaries.....Mills, Son Of Charles D 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Natasha Miles bittersweet3@yahoo.com June 5, 2020, 12:10 am The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) 22 March 1898 A special to the Raleigh News and Observer says that in Halifax county last Saturday Charles D Mills took the horse from the plow, put his 6-year-old son upon his back, and started for dinner. The horse ran away, throwing the child. The little boy's clothes caught in the hook of the traces and he was dragged to death. The horse ran to the house with the bleeding remains. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/halifax/obits/m/mills3822gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb