MACON COUNTY, NC -- OBITUARIES -- John Wesley Dowdle, March 2, 1860
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From The Franklin Observer (published in Franklin, Macon Co., NC), 
March 16, 1860 issue:

Died, on the 2nd inst., John Wesley Dowdle, infant son of Felix A. and
Sallie L. Dowdle, of Macon County, N. C., aged two years, one month
and two days.

This child came to its death under peculiarly painful and distressing
circumstances, being killed almost instantly by a large log rolling
over it.  The father had cut a large log in two on a steep hillside,
some fifty yards from the house, and had placed a rock under it to keep
it from rolling -- two of his children being with him, the one that was
killed and an older one -- and in playing about the log it is supposed
they got the rock from under it with which it was propped, the log 
rolling over both the children, mashing the head of little John, 
causing death in a half hour, whilst the older sister escaped with a 
broken jaw and being badly bruised, of which it is thought to be 
recovering.  No doubt little John is an angel now in glory.  May this
solemn dispensation of Providence, be the means of bringing the parents
and kindred and all who read this nearer to God.  "Be ye also ready for
in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh."       W.