New Market – About 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, Mr. Travis W. Loy, of Friends Station sent a Negro named Phipps into his well to clean it out and as he did not come up, Mr. Loy suspected that something was wrong and went to his assistance and he was overcome with carbonic gas and as no one else would attempt their rescue, it was some two hours before the two men were brought to the surface with hooks, when life was extinct.

Mr. Loy was a very prominent and successful farmer and a member of the county court. His sad death casts a gloom over the entire community. He leaves a large family.

Source: The Knoxville Daily Journal, Friday, September 27, 1895

Transcribed by Robert McGinnis