Murray County, GA
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Articles of Disaster or Misfortune
Source: Weekly Telegraph and Messenger 1885 Feb 13
THE INCENDIARY OF MURRAY COUNTY
On last Monday morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, Mr. A. K. Ramsey's store, in Doolittle, was burned to ashes. Mr. Ramsey and his little son had been to Dalton the evening before and came about 11 o'clock. They were sleeping in the office adjoining the store building, and when they awoke the inside and front of the store were wrapped in flames. The firing must have been the work of an incendiary. Fortunately the building and goods were lightly insured, which will prevent the loss from being so great.--SPRING PLACE TIMES
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Source: The Columbus Enquirer-Sun 1909 Sept 29
SPRING PLACE GIRL SUDDENLY QUITS HOME
Murray County Posses Begin Search for Miss Dora Gallman Who Has Disappeared
Spring Place, GA., Sept. 28--Dora Gallman, daughter of J. H. Gallman, a prosperous farmer living near here, disappeared from her home Monday night, about 9 o'clock and not a trace of her has been found. There has been a large posse of her friends and relatives searching for her since her disappearance from her home. Miss Gallman is the neice of J. D. Gallman, clerk of the superior court of Murray county, and there is a great deal of excitement over her disappearance and the fact that no trace of her can be found. Miss Gallman has been in very bad health the past several months.
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Source: Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa Sept. 1872
Mr. Bailey, a resident of Murray County, GA., stuck a thorn in his foot recently, while in his field at work, which he at once extracted. The wound from the thorn, which was very slight, gave him but little pain at the time, but the next morning it swelled to almost twice it's natural size and on the second day it was found that mortification had commenced, and he died soon after.
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Source: Dallas Morning News Historical Archive-1966-June-30
Six members of a Chatsworth, Ga., family were fatally injured in a car-truck collision three miles south of that town, the Georgia highway patrol said. The dead were identified as John Rymer, his wife, Mrs. Louise Rymer, 39; and four of their children, John Henry, 19; Abraham, 14; Wanda Faye, 5; and Marlene, 2. Dorothy Rymer, 11; was undergoing emergency brain surgery at Murray County Hospital Wednesday night.
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Source: Richwood Gazette (Richwood, Ohio) 1 April 1954
William Haywood Porter, 52, and his wife, Vera Ogden Porter, 50, of Columbus were killed instantly last Friday morning in a head-on collision with a truck near Chatsworth, Georgia as they were enroute home from a vacation in Florida. Their son William, 27, who was riding in the back seat of the car suffered a broken wrist and rib fractures and the truck driver was killed. Mrs. Porter is a sister of Mrs. Robert Glendenning, of Delaware, a former resident of Richwood where her husband, Dr. Glendenning, had a dental office for several years. Mrs. Porter was a native of Milford Center. She also leaves a brother, Harold Ogden of Winter Haven, Fla., with whom they had been visiting.
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Source: Newspaper clipping Sunday, 12 May 1929
Mrs. G. D. Turner, beloved Floyd county citizen, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Camp, in Oak Park Saturday night at 8:50 o'clock. Mrs. Turner has been a resident of Floyd county for 35 years and had a wide circle of friends who will be sadden by the loss of their comrade. She is survived by her husband and the following children: Mrs. S. L. Camp, Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Mrs. W. P. Nicholson of Rome; Mrs. Frank Rogers of Lindale; Mrs. E. J. Bowen of Chattanooga, and Mrs. Charles H. German of Richland, Ga. Three brothers, Rell Fox, of Chattanooga, Sam Fox of Lindale; Amos Fox of Alabama, and seven sisters, Mrs. J. D. Loner, Albertville, Ala; Mrs. J. P. McBryant, of Jackson, Ga., Mrs. George Hardin of Dalton, Mrs. Henry Smith of Texas, Mrs. Bill Smith of Murray County, and Mrs. Avery Hartsell of Texas, and Mrs. Fannie McCarson of Lindale, also survive her. The funeral will be held from the home of Mrs. Camp in Oak Park, Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Rev. R. E. Ravis will conduct the services. Interment will be in the Beech Creek Cemetery. The following pallbearers are requested to meet at the home of Mrs. Camp: B. D. Ward, Clyde Allen, Charles M. McCurdy, L. M. Reynolds, Mr. McDonald and Dr. Smith of Calhoun.
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Atlanta, Ga., Jan 2 - In Murray county, last night, Scott Headrick was stabbed dead by the three Cox brothers. [The Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal, Jan 2, 1884]
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