Tragedy Near Decaturville As Fire Encloses Couple
A Decaturville Tennessee correspondent reports a couple, Jefferson Kelly and his wife Watts, burned by a fallen log while camped by Rushing’s creek road. The log ignited a ground fire trapping them. the wife unable to free herself after hours of agony until rescue. The husband died after guiding his wife. The couple had married about three months and were traveling to cross the Tennessee river for cheaper corn.
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