- Acadian Recorder – Saturday, 15 January 1820 – Page 3 –Shocking Casualty –Mr. James Lockhart of Rawdon, on the 29th ultimo, in cutting a large tree for firewood, it suddenly fell off from the stump and struck his right foot, tore it off from the leg and sunk the severed part fifteen or eighteen inches into the ground; drew off with it six of the main cords of the leg as far as the knee; notwithstanding the shock, he rose from the fall, not knowing he had just lost his foot, until his man told him that his foot was off; on which he got upon his horse and rode home. Surgical aid was immediately sought, and an amputation of the mangled part of the leg was performed the same night. At nine o\clock the next morning he expired, with a mind tranquil and resigned, full of hope of a resurrection into immortal life – leaving a wife and one child to sustain the loss.
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