Abbreviations used
Date June 26 1869
County Carleton
Place Woodstock
Newspaper Carleton Sentinel
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
On Monday last while two brothers, sons of John McLELLAN, North Richmond, were proceeding to their work, one of the boys being on horseback, by some mischance a cultivator which the lad on the horse was carrying with him fell off, causing the horse to kick, striking the other boy, James McLELLAN, age 19, so severely that he died on the following day.