Mr. Parish - Suicide

A dispatch was received May 30th from Senoia says the Griffin News, Aleck Parish formerly of this city had suicided there.   Mr. Parish was a stonemason, about thirty years old, and had moved to Senoia only a few months ago.

The life of Aleck Parish was an eventful, and it might be called an accidental one.

Early in his career he fell out of a tree and broke a limb.

Next he was thrown off the track by a locomotive.

Then he was blown out of a well, is which he was at work, by an explosion.

He was run over by Kemble Jackson on a race course, and thought to have been killed.

Again, he was hit over the head by a rock and his skull broken.

In a difficulty at Hampton he had a jaw broken.

After seeing the performance of Luke at Coup's circus, he jumped off a spring board in the woods and broke is back.

It is said that one time he was caught in the wheel of a running wagon and had his collar bone broken.

And now, tired of being the sport of Fate, he has taken his own life.  

He leaves behind him at Senoia a wife and three children; and at Griffin a mother and brother and two sisters, all of whom have our sympathy.

Jackson News - Week of June 7, 1882

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