Roberts - Will - 1895 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Waveland, July 31—Will Roberts, Abner Herrod and Charles Peyton with their families came from Terre Haute last Sunday to camp at the Shades for a week, little thinking ‘ere the week passed by the fatal calamity awaiting them. Yesterday about noon the gentlemen drove over to Waveland taking their guns with them intending to hunt as they went back. When within one half mile of the Shades on their return Messrs. Roberts and Herrod got over in a woods while Mr. Peyton drove. When they came back to the road Mr. Roberts who was carrying a 32 caliber rifle climbed over the fence, there being a slight ditch close by into which he slipped, his gun being discharged the ball passing through the abdomen and chest killing him instantly. The body was brought to Waveland and prepared for shipment to his home at Terre Haute.