From THE FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER
Thursday, July 14, 1881:
FEARFUL DEATH - Robert H. Rawls, a native of this county, but late of Nashville, met with a most horrible death in that city on last Thursday night. He and his wife occupied rooms in the third story of the Allen block on Church Street. About 10 o'clock, Mr. Rawls, on account of the excessive heat carried a quilt out to the front balcony of the building, upon which he intended to lie down, for the purposes of cooling off. Although his wife remonstrated with him for so doing on account of recent somnambulistic freaks, he insisted up on going, stating that he would not go to sleep, but remain out for a short time, and then return. After going out, in a very short time he fell asleep, and during the time, and while in this condition, it is supposed he got up, and instead of returning to his wife's room, fell over the banisters, a distance of about fifty feet to the rock pavement below, breaking his neck, crushing in the skull, shattering his right shoulder into fragments and his right arm between the wrist and elbow, from which he expired immediately. The deceased was the father of no children and leaves only a wife, an aged mother, Mrs. Sally Rawls, sisters, Mrs. Leatherwood and McAnn, and brothers, John and Dr. Frank, of Blanche, and Jas. W. and Brown, of Molino, live in this county. Mr. Jas. W. Rawls went to Nashville Saturday to attend the funeral; the remains were interred there. We offer the bereaved relatives our earnest sympathy.
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Robert H. Rawls married Cordelia Wolfe in Carroll Co., TN on January 11, 1869.
Thursday, July 14, 1881:
FEARFUL DEATH - Robert H. Rawls, a native of this county, but late of Nashville, met with a most horrible death in that city on last Thursday night. He and his wife occupied rooms in the third story of the Allen block on Church Street. About 10 o'clock, Mr. Rawls, on account of the excessive heat carried a quilt out to the front balcony of the building, upon which he intended to lie down, for the purposes of cooling off. Although his wife remonstrated with him for so doing on account of recent somnambulistic freaks, he insisted up on going, stating that he would not go to sleep, but remain out for a short time, and then return. After going out, in a very short time he fell asleep, and during the time, and while in this condition, it is supposed he got up, and instead of returning to his wife's room, fell over the banisters, a distance of about fifty feet to the rock pavement below, breaking his neck, crushing in the skull, shattering his right shoulder into fragments and his right arm between the wrist and elbow, from which he expired immediately. The deceased was the father of no children and leaves only a wife, an aged mother, Mrs. Sally Rawls, sisters, Mrs. Leatherwood and McAnn, and brothers, John and Dr. Frank, of Blanche, and Jas. W. and Brown, of Molino, live in this county. Mr. Jas. W. Rawls went to Nashville Saturday to attend the funeral; the remains were interred there. We offer the bereaved relatives our earnest sympathy.
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Robert H. Rawls married Cordelia Wolfe in Carroll Co., TN on January 11, 1869.
From THE FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER
Thursday, July 14, 1881:
FEARFUL DEATH - Robert H. Rawls, a native of this county, but late of Nashville, met with a most horrible death in that city on last Thursday night. He and his wife occupied rooms in the third story of the Allen block on Church Street. About 10 o'clock, Mr. Rawls, on account of the excessive heat carried a quilt out to the front balcony of the building, upon which he intended to lie down, for the purposes of cooling off. Although his wife remonstrated with him for so doing on account of recent somnambulistic freaks, he insisted up on going, stating that he would not go to sleep, but remain out for a short time, and then return. After going out, in a very short time he fell asleep, and during the time, and while in this condition, it is supposed he got up, and instead of returning to his wife's room, fell over the banisters, a distance of about fifty feet to the rock pavement below, breaking his neck, crushing in the skull, shattering his right shoulder into fragments and his right arm between the wrist and elbow, from which he expired immediately. The deceased was the father of no children and leaves only a wife, an aged mother, Mrs. Sally Rawls, sisters, Mrs. Leatherwood and McAnn, and brothers, John and Dr. Frank, of Blanche, and Jas. W. and Brown, of Molino, live in this county. Mr. Jas. W. Rawls went to Nashville Saturday to attend the funeral; the remains were interred there. We offer the bereaved relatives our earnest sympathy.
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Robert H. Rawls married Cordelia Wolfe in Carroll Co., TN on January 11, 1869.
Thursday, July 14, 1881:
FEARFUL DEATH - Robert H. Rawls, a native of this county, but late of Nashville, met with a most horrible death in that city on last Thursday night. He and his wife occupied rooms in the third story of the Allen block on Church Street. About 10 o'clock, Mr. Rawls, on account of the excessive heat carried a quilt out to the front balcony of the building, upon which he intended to lie down, for the purposes of cooling off. Although his wife remonstrated with him for so doing on account of recent somnambulistic freaks, he insisted up on going, stating that he would not go to sleep, but remain out for a short time, and then return. After going out, in a very short time he fell asleep, and during the time, and while in this condition, it is supposed he got up, and instead of returning to his wife's room, fell over the banisters, a distance of about fifty feet to the rock pavement below, breaking his neck, crushing in the skull, shattering his right shoulder into fragments and his right arm between the wrist and elbow, from which he expired immediately. The deceased was the father of no children and leaves only a wife, an aged mother, Mrs. Sally Rawls, sisters, Mrs. Leatherwood and McAnn, and brothers, John and Dr. Frank, of Blanche, and Jas. W. and Brown, of Molino, live in this county. Mr. Jas. W. Rawls went to Nashville Saturday to attend the funeral; the remains were interred there. We offer the bereaved relatives our earnest sympathy.
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Robert H. Rawls married Cordelia Wolfe in Carroll Co., TN on January 11, 1869.
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