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Lansing State Journal
Tuesday, 29 November 1859

         Fatal Accident
         
         Correspondence of the Free Press
           Brooklyn, Mich., Nov 12.
           
         On the evening of the 7th of November, at about
       6 o'clock, DAVID THOMAS, of Cambridge, Lenawee
       county, met with his death in the following melan-
       choly manner: On his return home from Adrian on
       the above named evening, - whither he had gone to
       dispose of a load of hides and pelts (a business
       in which he was engaged), he was thrown from his
       wagon near Dr. Combs', in Rome, while driving at
       a rapid rate, and broke his collar bone, and so
       injured his spine as to cause his death in about
       fourteen hours. During the most of the time he
       lived he was perfectly rational, and gave some
       directions in regard to his immediate business,
       with the hope of soon being better. He was kindly
       and constantly attended by Dr. Combs, of Rome,
       until he died. His decease occurred about an 
       hour before any one of his family reached the
       scene of the sad event. By his request, his wife 
       was not sent for.
         MR. THOMAS was 40 years of age, and has long
       been an active and energetic business man in his
       town, and as such he is by many missed. He was a
       kind husban, and a father beloved by his children,
       who are indeed clothed in sorrow at an event so
       unlooked for and unusual. His funeral took place
       from the Episcopal Church Nov. 8th, where a very
       large assemblage of his friends and neighbors
       testified to the general gloom which this sad
       casualty occasioned in their midst.
       
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