Sumner County TN Archives News.....FIRST AND LAST, AN OLD MAN TAKES HIS FIRST RIDE ON A RAILROAD AND DIES ON BOARD September 5, 1889
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Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 August 13, 2005, 5:11 pm

The Georgia Enterprise September 5, 1889
     Campbell A. Walton rode to his death on Wednesday. He was an old man of 

over eighty years, who lived with his wife near Castleton Springs, in Sumner 

County, Tenn., and neither of them had ever been on a railroad train before. 

Wednesday morning they rode over to Gallatin and got on the train bound for 

Nashville. He was apparently much excited over his novel journey, and in half 

and hour from the time he started, he suddenly fell dead in his seat. His death 

was caused from heart disease, and primarily by the excitement, it is supposed, 

of his strange journey.



Additional Comments:
The Georgia Enterprise was published in Newton County, Georgia, up to 1905.



*I have no connection with the "Walton" surname.

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