Chesser

- 1851

• Name	Chesser
  Gender	Male
  Misfortune	1851	Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada
  	killed by logs
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-204067
  Died	6 Apr 1851	Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I204067	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  CHESSER, FADY - On the morning of Sunday last, three young lads were chatting together among the saw logs placed on the edge of a bank near Mr. David Snider's sawmill in West Blenheim, a short distance from the Dumfries towline. Whilst quietly conversing, a log on the brow of the hill suddenly moved, and toppling down towards the unfortunate lads, jammed two of them named Chesser and Fady up against another log with such violence that their lower limbs were smashed to pieces and their bodies severely crushed. The third boy miraculously escaped from a knot in the log preventing him from being crushed like his companions. One of the unfortunate boys died in about an hour after the accident. The other survived long enough to endure the additional suffering of having his thigh cut off, but died the same evening. The parents were formerly residents in the Township of Waterloo and the mother of poor Chesser was confined only a few hours before her darling boy so miserably perished. Hamilton Spectator 9 Apr 1851

  
  

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  Misfortune - killed by logs - 1851 - Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 6 Apr 1851 - Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth