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09 November 2010
A Distressing Accident
While looking around on the newspaper archive atGenealogyBank, I discovered a reference in the Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser from 18 August 1834. Apparently John A. Rampley, the youngest son of William Rampley, fell off a load of hay into some water where he drowned.
William was a brother to my ancestor, Thomas Rampley.
This newspaper account is the only reference to the son I can find.
As they add more newspapers, perhaps I'll make more discoveries. Based on this, it appears that the son died on 2 August 1834.