Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Prominent White County Farmer Killed. [ARTICLE]

Prominent White County Farmer Killed.

R. D. Roberts, one of White county's leading farmers and stock growers, died Saturday night from injuries received last Wednesday from a large stone which he was hauling off the field and piling up, fell back cn him as he was raising k. to the loose wall where he was piling them. The rock fell on his abdomen, injuring him so badly that he took to his bed at once on reaching the house and his condition grew steadily worse until death resulted.