Son of Anthony W. Belote and Piety Vickers.
The cemetery is described as being "North of Hahira: From GA 122 Near the East side of I-75 take Union Road North 1.9 miles. Cemetery in a field on the right."
BY FALLING TREE HE DIED
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Life Crushed out of Albert Belote Nea Hahira Yesterday.
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Mr. Albert Belote, thirty years of age, and a son of Mr. Anthony W. Belote, of the Hahira district, was crushed to death yesterday by a tree which was cut down in clearing a place for the Webb mill site, two miles west of Hahira.
He and a young man named Folsom engaged in sawing down trees and clearing off the ground. They sawed one tree, a good size sapling, and it fell forward striking against another tree. The force of the fall and its weight together caused the tree to kick backward, striking Mr. Belote in the stomach and knocking him down, the trunk of the tree falling on him and pinning him to the ground.
Efforts were made to lift the tree off of him and two mules were hitched to it to try and pull it off, but they were unble to make it budge, owing to the peculiar manner in which it fell. It was finally prised up and he was lifted out from under the heavy weight. He lingered but a few minutes, dying in about twenty minutes after the tree fell upon him.
His suffering during the few minutes that he was pinned down by the heavy timber must have been very great. He realized that death was only a question of a little while and he begged those with him to kill him with the axe and thus end his suffering. Several times before he died he asked to be killed.
His father, Mr. Anthony Wayne Belote, was serving on the jury in the city court when the news of his son's death reached him. It was sent here by telephone from Hahira. The shock to the parent was very great and he hurried home as soon as he could.
Messers. M. H. Barfield and T. W. Webb came down yesterday afternoon to secure a coffin for the remains of the unfortunate young man. The funeral will probably occur at the Belote cemetery, near Hahira, though it was expected that it would not be held until after the arrival of a brother of the deceased from Alabama. He also has a sister living at Tifton, besides a number of younger brothers and sisters residing with his parents.
He was well known around Hahira and his untimely death is regretted by all who knew him.
~The Valdosta Times. Saturday, 12 December 1908. p7.
The cemetery is described as being "North of Hahira: From GA 122 Near the East side of I-75 take Union Road North 1.9 miles. Cemetery in a field on the right."
BY FALLING TREE HE DIED
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Life Crushed out of Albert Belote Nea Hahira Yesterday.
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Mr. Albert Belote, thirty years of age, and a son of Mr. Anthony W. Belote, of the Hahira district, was crushed to death yesterday by a tree which was cut down in clearing a place for the Webb mill site, two miles west of Hahira.
He and a young man named Folsom engaged in sawing down trees and clearing off the ground. They sawed one tree, a good size sapling, and it fell forward striking against another tree. The force of the fall and its weight together caused the tree to kick backward, striking Mr. Belote in the stomach and knocking him down, the trunk of the tree falling on him and pinning him to the ground.
Efforts were made to lift the tree off of him and two mules were hitched to it to try and pull it off, but they were unble to make it budge, owing to the peculiar manner in which it fell. It was finally prised up and he was lifted out from under the heavy weight. He lingered but a few minutes, dying in about twenty minutes after the tree fell upon him.
His suffering during the few minutes that he was pinned down by the heavy timber must have been very great. He realized that death was only a question of a little while and he begged those with him to kill him with the axe and thus end his suffering. Several times before he died he asked to be killed.
His father, Mr. Anthony Wayne Belote, was serving on the jury in the city court when the news of his son's death reached him. It was sent here by telephone from Hahira. The shock to the parent was very great and he hurried home as soon as he could.
Messers. M. H. Barfield and T. W. Webb came down yesterday afternoon to secure a coffin for the remains of the unfortunate young man. The funeral will probably occur at the Belote cemetery, near Hahira, though it was expected that it would not be held until after the arrival of a brother of the deceased from Alabama. He also has a sister living at Tifton, besides a number of younger brothers and sisters residing with his parents.
He was well known around Hahira and his untimely death is regretted by all who knew him.
~The Valdosta Times. Saturday, 12 December 1908. p7.
Son of Anthony W. Belote and Piety Vickers.
The cemetery is described as being "North of Hahira: From GA 122 Near the East side of I-75 take Union Road North 1.9 miles. Cemetery in a field on the right."
BY FALLING TREE HE DIED
---
Life Crushed out of Albert Belote Nea Hahira Yesterday.
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Mr. Albert Belote, thirty years of age, and a son of Mr. Anthony W. Belote, of the Hahira district, was crushed to death yesterday by a tree which was cut down in clearing a place for the Webb mill site, two miles west of Hahira.
He and a young man named Folsom engaged in sawing down trees and clearing off the ground. They sawed one tree, a good size sapling, and it fell forward striking against another tree. The force of the fall and its weight together caused the tree to kick backward, striking Mr. Belote in the stomach and knocking him down, the trunk of the tree falling on him and pinning him to the ground.
Efforts were made to lift the tree off of him and two mules were hitched to it to try and pull it off, but they were unble to make it budge, owing to the peculiar manner in which it fell. It was finally prised up and he was lifted out from under the heavy weight. He lingered but a few minutes, dying in about twenty minutes after the tree fell upon him.
His suffering during the few minutes that he was pinned down by the heavy timber must have been very great. He realized that death was only a question of a little while and he begged those with him to kill him with the axe and thus end his suffering. Several times before he died he asked to be killed.
His father, Mr. Anthony Wayne Belote, was serving on the jury in the city court when the news of his son's death reached him. It was sent here by telephone from Hahira. The shock to the parent was very great and he hurried home as soon as he could.
Messers. M. H. Barfield and T. W. Webb came down yesterday afternoon to secure a coffin for the remains of the unfortunate young man. The funeral will probably occur at the Belote cemetery, near Hahira, though it was expected that it would not be held until after the arrival of a brother of the deceased from Alabama. He also has a sister living at Tifton, besides a number of younger brothers and sisters residing with his parents.
He was well known around Hahira and his untimely death is regretted by all who knew him.
~The Valdosta Times. Saturday, 12 December 1908. p7.
The cemetery is described as being "North of Hahira: From GA 122 Near the East side of I-75 take Union Road North 1.9 miles. Cemetery in a field on the right."
BY FALLING TREE HE DIED
---
Life Crushed out of Albert Belote Nea Hahira Yesterday.
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Mr. Albert Belote, thirty years of age, and a son of Mr. Anthony W. Belote, of the Hahira district, was crushed to death yesterday by a tree which was cut down in clearing a place for the Webb mill site, two miles west of Hahira.
He and a young man named Folsom engaged in sawing down trees and clearing off the ground. They sawed one tree, a good size sapling, and it fell forward striking against another tree. The force of the fall and its weight together caused the tree to kick backward, striking Mr. Belote in the stomach and knocking him down, the trunk of the tree falling on him and pinning him to the ground.
Efforts were made to lift the tree off of him and two mules were hitched to it to try and pull it off, but they were unble to make it budge, owing to the peculiar manner in which it fell. It was finally prised up and he was lifted out from under the heavy weight. He lingered but a few minutes, dying in about twenty minutes after the tree fell upon him.
His suffering during the few minutes that he was pinned down by the heavy timber must have been very great. He realized that death was only a question of a little while and he begged those with him to kill him with the axe and thus end his suffering. Several times before he died he asked to be killed.
His father, Mr. Anthony Wayne Belote, was serving on the jury in the city court when the news of his son's death reached him. It was sent here by telephone from Hahira. The shock to the parent was very great and he hurried home as soon as he could.
Messers. M. H. Barfield and T. W. Webb came down yesterday afternoon to secure a coffin for the remains of the unfortunate young man. The funeral will probably occur at the Belote cemetery, near Hahira, though it was expected that it would not be held until after the arrival of a brother of the deceased from Alabama. He also has a sister living at Tifton, besides a number of younger brothers and sisters residing with his parents.
He was well known around Hahira and his untimely death is regretted by all who knew him.
~The Valdosta Times. Saturday, 12 December 1908. p7.
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