Macon Weekly Telegraph, Georgia
24 April 1877
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"THE GEORGIA PRESS
...The Sumter Republican learns that Robert Williams, son of 'Mr. R. M. Williams, living near Buena Vista, Marion county, met with a fatal accident on his father's premises last Saturday afternoon while throwing off a load of logs from a wagon. It seems he was standing on the ground throwing the logs over his head, and while holding a heavy one in his hands he made a step backwards and fell across a log lying behind him, when the piece of timber he had hold of fell across his head, breaking the skull and causing instant death.'"
