MITCHELL, William Floyd
Date of death: 22 May 1899 – Trafalgar, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 26, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 46, page 3 column 2
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TRAFALGAR.
The most horrible accident that ever happened in this part of the county occurred Tuesday evening on the farm of Arch Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell was rolling his ground and had just gone to the house for a drink when his six-year old son got on the roller, which had no seat on it. The horses started and the little fellow was thrown off, his body catching between the frame and the roller. His body went through but his head being too large to pass through the space, and his feet being caught under the roller, the head was severed from the body. When found the head and body were lying some distance apart. The remains were buried at Mt. Pleasant Wednesday morning.
Link to William Floyd Mitchell’s grave
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry