Moore - Floyd C. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

A very sad accident occurred Monday afternoon at the farm of Nathaniel Moore, a mile southwest of Waynetown. Mr. Moore, accompanied by his eight year old son, went out into the woods to fell a tree. Mr. Moore worked with a saw and finally, having sawed a great part of the way through the trunk, began to drive a glut into the opening to relieve the saw. One glut did not suffice so the little boy picked up another at some distance away and started to bring it to his father. As he came up the tree began to sway and fell without warning in a direction different from that in which it was expected to fall. The agonized father saw his child right in the path of the falling tree and frenziedly called to him to run. The lad did not succeed in escaping and was crushed to the ground by the limbs of the falling tree. He was horribly mangled, his head being fairly buried in the soft earth. The earth being so soft prevented his immediate death and he lingered several hours before the end came.  Mr. Moore’s family has been peculiarly unlucky. One of his sisters had a child burned to death not long ago and another sister had a child to choke to death on a piece of beefsteak.

Floyd was born in Tippecanoe County 8 June 18980 and passed 12 April 1897 buried Waynetown Masonic Cemetery