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Newspaper article: A. Preston Settle Crushed

Identifier: 2019.1.205
Object titles: A. Preston Settle Crushed
Acquisition and Creation Dates:
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged July 16 2019
RHS Keywords: Apples
Object Source Information: RHS Archives,RHS reference
Description: Twelve year old A. P. Settles was crushed to death hauling a load of apples to Front Royal with his father. He slipped under the rear wheel and the wagon drawing twenty barrels of apples ran over him. He was operated on at the Hospital at the Remount Station, but the doctors were unable to save him. He was the son of Preston B. & Alice Gooch Settle.

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