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- Samuel Chester Barrows of Middletown, CT was a carpenter and builder by trade. One day, while engaged in clearing stumps from a vacant lot on the north side of Rapells Avenue, he as struck in the head by a piece of stump in which a charge of
powder had been placed to blow it into pieces. The piece was about a foot in length and four inches in diameter, and made a gash four inches long, completely crushing in the front part of his skull. He remained unconscious until 3:00 a.m. the
next morning when he died, 10 Jan 1888, age 34 years. Samuel Chester Barrows never married.
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