Dade County, Georgia Obituaries and Death Notices

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Dade County, Georgia
Obituaries and Death Notices

SARAH HOUSTON
Died in Dade county, Georgia, Sarah Simmons Houston, 19 December 1874.
["The house of Plant of Macon, Georgia : with genealogies and historical notes" G. S. Dickerman, 1900]

JAMES E. MITCHELL
[Born in Pennsylvania.—Appointed from the Army.]
MILITARY HISTORY — Enlisted in the 18th U. S. Infantry, 1862. Second lieutenant 18th U.S.. Infantry, February, 1863. With regiment, and engaged at action of Hoover's Gap and Tullahoma campaign. Died in Dade County, Georgia, September 13th, 1863.
[Source: "Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army"; by Guy Vernor Henry; 1873. Transcribed by K. Torp]

MURDERED AT SUPPER – Rivalry In Evil Ways Draws Blood in a Georgia Town
Chattanooga, April 25 – News has reached this city of the brutal murder at Coal City, Ga of John Sells, a young mining boss, by Lee Jordan, a young convict guard. Jordan had been making threats for several weeks that he would kills Sells if he ever had an opportunity, and at the supper table, after a tirade of abuse, pulled a pistol out of his bosom and shot Sells through the breast. Sells rose to his feet and started to the door, when a second bullet brought him down and he died in a few minutes. The murderer made good his escape, flourishing his pistol and threatening to kill any one who came near him. Both young men belonged to good families. A reward is offered for Jordan’s arrest, and he will probably be lynched if captured. It is said that there was a lewd woman in the case and the men were rivals for her favor.
Vernon Courier (Lamar County, AL), May 1, 1890 Submitted by Veneta McKinney