Obituary: Green County, Wisconsin: Samuel WALLACE

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

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Death by Accident.--At an early hour yesterday morning, a messenger came
into town, requesting the attention of Esquire Hoskins, to a case of death
by accident, near Mr. Curtis Farnam's, in the town of Union. A coroner's
jury was summoned, but as the verdict was not made out at the time of
ourgoing to press, we subjoin the statement as made to us by Mr. Hoskins.

The name of the deceased was Samuel Wallace, and belonged in Exeter, Green
county, aged some seventeen or eighteen years. He, with a Mr. John
Patterson, also of Exeter, came to Evansville Monday with a load of hogs,
for market. The hogs were sold and the two men stayed about town until a
late hour, when they set out for home, and had proceeded as far as Mr.
Farman's some four miles from Evansville and by some mismanagement of the
team, upset the wagon, the box falling directly across the head and neck of
Mr. Wallace, where he was found by some of the family of Mr. Farman's next
morning, dead. When the box was raised, Mr. Patterson was found beneath it
uninjured, but in an almost insensible condition.

The parties had drank freely before setting out for home, and when they
left town were in an unfit condition to control themselves, much less a
team. Mr. Patterson knew nothing of the fate of his companion and was
equally as conscious of his own condition until the effects of his
intoxication began to wear off. We believe this is substancailly the
circumstances of the horrible fate of a fellow being. Shall we license the
traffic next Tuesday?

March 29, 1871, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin