The father of the author of the reminiscences was killed by the fall of a tree.

The evidence

• “Their parents lived in and about Clarendon and La Moil counties. My father was killed by the fall of a tree in 1830. It was the custom in those days to have a "Bee" for each neighbor, go into the woods and chop down trees and draw to his house sufficient wood for the season.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/01-introduction-and-family-background.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources