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Georgia Genealogy Trails "Where your Journey Begins" |
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Walton County, Georgia News
Peter Gulp, in the Athens Banner,
thus re-calls a bloody murder of forty years ago: A terrible tragedy
took place in Walton county, five or six miles from Jug Tavern. A man
named Harris had married a Miss Whaley, of good family, and Harris was
well off, but a drunkard. He drank constantly and treated his wife so
badly she left him and went to his mother's. After some time he went to
try to get her to return home, and he was drunk then and she refused to
go, and he shot her dead ; her mother came to the rescue and he killed
her; about this time his brother-in-law appeared, and Harris swore he
would kill him. Whaley either had his gun, or got it somehow, and while
Harris was trying to shoot him, Whaley pot around the comer of the
smoke house, took a rest against the corner, and shot Harris dead in
his tracks. There lay husband and wife and wife's mother, all dead.
That was awful, but insignificant to Woolfolk's. Whaley was tried, but
came clear because he was right and was a good man." |
