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Clore - Charley

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday 8 Jan 1897

The many friends of Ras Clore will be shocked to hear of the sad death of his thirteen years old boy, Charley. Charley came out to his grandmother’s to spend the holidays and Saturday he and two of his cousins went rabbit hunting. All went well until they started home, when, as Charley was climbing a fence, his gun slipped from his hand the lock striking the fence and discharging the load into his right side below the short ribs, almost disemboweling him. He lived about six hours, when death relieved him of his suffering

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