Randolph County NcArchives Obituaries.....Macon, Taylor 1898
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The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) 9 August 1898
News was received here this morning of the killing of a man by the name of
Taylor Macon, five miles south of here, by the south bound train on the A & A
railroad. Mr Macon and sister were returning from Asheboro to their home in
Grant township in a one-horse wagon and in attempting to cross the track were
run over by the train, which ran over their wagon, killing Macon outright and
injuring the woman so severely that she is not expected to live. Mr Macon was a
good and prosperous farmer.

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The Semi-Weekly Messenger. [Wilmington NC], August 26, 1898
Asheboro Courier: Taylor Macon, who lived at Yow's Mills, in Richland township, 
returning from Asheboro on August 3rd accompanied by his sister, was killed by 
the regular southbound afternoon train at Cox's Crossing, five miles from Asheboro, 
about 200 yards north of Utah. The engineer saw Mr Macon 100 yards before the 
engine reached the crossing. He put on air brakes and blew the whistle for hand 
brakes. The conductor and brakemen say they put on the hand brakes. Miss Macon, 
says so we learn, that she took hold of lines to try to get her brother not to 
go across until the train passed, but he insisted on going ahead, and that they 
would probably have gotten across the road had it not been for her effort to 
stop till the train passed. The head of Mr Macon was severed from his body, 
killing him instantly. Miss Macon was seriously injured, but is now recovering.

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