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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: H. Dry
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:20:58 -0500


Undated article; original source unknown. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.





KILLED BY A HORSE.



Harry Dry's Foot Hung in a Stirrup and He ws Kicked to Death.



"At a late hour yesterday afternoon the news was telephoned to this
place that Harry Dry, the sixteen year-old son of B.F. Dry, living about
three miles southeast of Madison, had met his death by being kicked by a
horse. The particulars as best we can learn them now, are substantially
as follows:



Young Dry and Ben Cunningham were working in the hay field, both riding
horses attached to some sort of a hay machine, when the horse young
Cunningham was riding, got frightened and commenced to rear and plunge.
Harry, noticing his companion's perilous predicament, attempted to lean
from the animal he was riding and go to Ben's assistance, when his foot
hung in the stirrup and the horse commenced kicking, injuring him so
seriously that his death resulted very shortly thereafter. The first
phone message, calling Dr. W.R. Blankenship to the scene of the
accident, had hardly been delivered when a second was received stating
that the poor unfortunate boy was dead.



Harry Dry was well and favorably known to all our people as a quiet,
unassuming, gentlemanly boy, who numbered his friends among both old and
young, by the score, and his tragic and untimely death will be mourned
with universal sorrow. Every heart goes out in profound sympathy to the
bereaved parents and relatives of the noble young man in this their
great bereavement."







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Kathleen Wilham

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Shelbina, MO. 63468-1562






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