CHESNUTT, Isaac, Beeville Bee, Friday, 19 Dec 1902:

Normanna, Texas Dec. 17. 
The most unfortunate affair of the year in this community occurred last Sunday, the 14th, 
inst., when Mr. Isaac CHESTNUTT was accidentally killed by Mr. Pat MARTIN. 

They left town about daylight and about noon when in one of Mr. Ray's pastures some 
six miles east of town, they wounded a deer and were following the trail. They separated, 
Mr. Chestnutt going to the left and Mr. Martin going to the right. Some twenty or thirty paces 
from that point when in a berry thick live oak runner brush, Mr. Martin hearing something 
moving on his right, in the opposite direction from where Mr. Chestnutt was supposed to 
be, and seeing what he took to be the deer, fired, shooting Mr. Chestnutt.  Mr. Martin heard 
Mr. Chestnutt scream, but did not think he could have shot him. Running around the 
underbrush - he could not go through it - he saw what he had done. The bullet struck 
Mr. Chestnutt a little below and behind the left armpit and passing through the body came 
out in front of the right arm. His death was almost instantaneous. Mr. Martin was so crazed 
with grief that it was some time before he could find his buggy and come to town and get 
help. To locate the body he took off his shirt and hung it on a tree over the body and tied 
his handkerchief to the fence nearby. It was a terrible affair and it has nearly crazed 
Mr. Martin. It will be many a long day before he gets over it. 

Mr. Chestnutt was 54 years old, and was justice of the peace and school trustee in that 
precinct and was well beloved by all that knew him. He leaves a family of six sons and four 
daughters who, with their sorrowing mother, have felt the heartfelt sympathy of the whole 
county.

Rev. J. M. SALLEE, officiated at the funeral of Mr. I. Chestnutt, a very untimely death. The 
deceased was born in Sampson county, North Carolina, January 21, 1848. He was married 
to Miss Sarah Chestnutt in 1867. In his 19th year he was baptized into the fellowship with 
the Baptist church.