Rockdale, Tex., May 29. -- At the Vogel-Lorenz mine, three miles east of Rockdale, Charley Ramon, 10 years old, was shot and instantly killed. Justice of the Peace Ed Gunn held an inquest and rendered a verdict to the effect the deceased met his death from the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Will Spence, aged 15 years. Dallas Morning News, May 30, 1913

"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . .
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
1913 :: Death of Charley Ramon
Rockdale, Tex., May 29. -- At the Vogel-Lorenz mine, three miles east of Rockdale, Charley Ramon, 10 years old, was shot and instantly killed. Justice of the Peace Ed Gunn held an inquest and rendered a verdict to the effect the deceased met his death from the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Will Spence, aged 15 years. Dallas Morning News, May 30, 1913
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