Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, John Wesley August 3, 1857
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Sat. Aug. 15, 1857, North Carolina Argus
               DEATH  OF JOHN WESLEY EDWARDS
   A sad accident occurred at the Paper Mills of the Neuse Manufacturing 
Company, situated at the Falls of the Neuse River in Wake County on Monday 
evening, the third instant. A youth named JOHN WESLEY EDWARDS, about 16 
years of age, who was employed in the mills, went up on the roof of the 
building at the close of the day's work to shut down the sun-light windows. 
The roof was quite slippery at the time, on account of the rain which has 
fallen, and it is supposed that the unfortunate youth lost his footing and 
fell a distance of some 40 feet into the water below. When it was discovered 
that the boy was missing, his father, MR. E. EDWARDS, who is also employed in 
the Mill, correctly fearing that he was drowned, commenced searching in the 
river below the mill for his body, but up to a late hour, it could not be 
found. The search was renewed next morning and the lifeless body was found, 
and there was a severe contusion under the chin, caused doubtless by striking 
against something in the fall from the roof of the building. -- 
Raleigh Register

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