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Detroit Free Press
Tuesday, 10 May, 1870

         The Allegan Journal of the 9th says: MR. EARL FRAYER,
       aged about forty-five years, was killed at a barn raising
       at Mr. WILLIAM BASSETT'S, in the Town of Heath, on Thurs-
       day at about 4 o'clock p.m. This fatal accident was caused
       by a timber falling on MR. FRAYER and smashing his skull.
       FRAYER lived fifteen minutes after he received his injuries.
       
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Detroit Free Press
Tuesday, 17 May, 1870

         The Allegan County Democrat, of the 11th, records this
       melancholy accident: MR. EARL FRAYER was killed while 
       assisting at a barn raising at WM. BASSETT'S, in the Town
       of Heath, on Tuesday afternoon last. While sending up the
       last piece of plate with a tackle, MR. FRAYER guiding it
       from a staging, the end struck a timber, breaking the
       tackle and letting the piece fall upon his head, crushing
       the back part of his skull in, and knocking him from his
       place to the ground. He lived only about fifteen minutes.
       
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