Excerpted from the Jones County Items column:

Amos SIMMONS, the little son of Mr. Joseph SIMMONS, was killed on Saturday, the 8th inst., on the road near his home by falling out of a wagon and the wheel passing over him.  He lived but a short time after the accident.  He was buried on Sunday evening.

Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 20 December 1883, page 3.