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Extracted from The Centreville Press (Centreville, AL)
Thursday, August 20, 1908

Old Citizen Drowned...

Last Thursday evening, John L. Wallace, 81, of Six Mile, died in Six Mile Creek.

In the field that day with his sons, he told them to go home and get ready for church and he would go by the spring. He fell over a six-foot bank onto rocks, waded up stream and fell exhausted. He was found Friday morning in three feet of water.

Survivors are his wife, 3 sons and 1 daughter. Funeral was Saturday at Six Mile Presbyterian Church.