Obituary: Dane County, Wisconsin: William J. MELVIN

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> April 2008

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William J. Melvin, the veteran who was injured by the premature discharge
of a canon at Madison on the 4th, died on the afternoon of the 5th. His
chief injuries were internal although his arm was broken in three places
and literally stripped of flesh. He belonged at Wausau and was employed
about the capital. A curious coincidence is that Melvin was distantly
related to John Betts, who was fatally injured in the same manner on the
4th of July eighteen years ago, and who was removed to the same house that
Melvin expired in, where he died next afternoon.

July 9, 1889, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin