____________________________________________________________________________ Negro Boy Killed by a Falling Tree Was With His Father Cutting Wood Near Town Snookum Holloway, a colored boy aged about 9 or 10 years, was almost instantly killed Tuesday morning (March 15, 1927) near Murfreesboro. The boy had gone to the woods with his father and another colored man Ollie Wesson to cut wood. A small tree was cut accidently falling across the boy. Wesson lifted the trunk from the boy, but the pressure of the tree hilled him. ____________________________________________________________________________ Pike County Courier, March 18, 1927, page 1, column 2. ____________________________________________________________________________ David Kelley 1997