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Wilson Toliver Stinson

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Wilson Toliver Stinson

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12 Dec 1904 (aged 42)
Sumner County, Tennessee, USA
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Eulia, Macon County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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WIFE WITNESSED DEATH
Sumner County Farmer Crushed In His Mill
Singular Series of Fatalities Follow in Succession Among Relatives Without Known Cause
Westmoreland, Tenn., Dec. 13.--Yesterday morning at an early hour. W. T. Stinson, a prominent and highly respected farmer and miller living near the Sumner and Macon county line, was caught in the machinery of his mill and crushed to death.
Something had caught in a wheel of the mill, which is run by water power, and stopped it, and when he removed the obstruction the mill started suddenly and caught his body between an arm of a large wheel and a beam of wood and almost crushed his body in two. His wife witnessed the accident but was unable to render any assistance.
The deceased leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss .
The family seems to be doomed to suffer from accidents. The aged father of the deceased is now in a critical condition from a fall from a barn; an uncle was killed by a runaway team; an aunt lost her life by falling into a barrel of soap; a brother was killed by a falling tree; a cousin was killed by being thrown from a horse, and a nephew was killed by a mule, besides several broken arms, legs and ribs distributed among is near relatives.
The deceased was a very popular man and leaves a large circle of friends and will be greatly missed.
The Chattanooga Press
December 16, 1904
(In traveling from Macon County on Old Hwy 52, after entering Sumner County the mill would have been located on the far right of the road at the creek, just after passing a left hand curve. This mill had previously been owned by James Pike who died March 23, 1891.)
WIFE WITNESSED DEATH
Sumner County Farmer Crushed In His Mill
Singular Series of Fatalities Follow in Succession Among Relatives Without Known Cause
Westmoreland, Tenn., Dec. 13.--Yesterday morning at an early hour. W. T. Stinson, a prominent and highly respected farmer and miller living near the Sumner and Macon county line, was caught in the machinery of his mill and crushed to death.
Something had caught in a wheel of the mill, which is run by water power, and stopped it, and when he removed the obstruction the mill started suddenly and caught his body between an arm of a large wheel and a beam of wood and almost crushed his body in two. His wife witnessed the accident but was unable to render any assistance.
The deceased leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss .
The family seems to be doomed to suffer from accidents. The aged father of the deceased is now in a critical condition from a fall from a barn; an uncle was killed by a runaway team; an aunt lost her life by falling into a barrel of soap; a brother was killed by a falling tree; a cousin was killed by being thrown from a horse, and a nephew was killed by a mule, besides several broken arms, legs and ribs distributed among is near relatives.
The deceased was a very popular man and leaves a large circle of friends and will be greatly missed.
The Chattanooga Press
December 16, 1904
(In traveling from Macon County on Old Hwy 52, after entering Sumner County the mill would have been located on the far right of the road at the creek, just after passing a left hand curve. This mill had previously been owned by James Pike who died March 23, 1891.)

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