Butts County GaArchives News.....Flemming Johnson - Killed January 1907
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 9, 2011, 7:18 am

Butts County Progress January 1907
Flemming Johnson – Shot to Death

Flemming Johnson, ten year old son of Jno. W. Johnson of near blunt, this 
county, shot himself accidentally Tuesday afternoon of last week, the shot 
entering his left side, ranging upwards and causing instant death.

Flemming was holding a gun in his hands while his older brother, J. W. 
Johnson, and cousin, Franklin Maddox, were cutting down a tree in which they 
had previously killed a squirrel, the squirrel dying without falling from the 
tree.

J. W. and Franklin did not see the tragedy as their backs were turned to 
Flemming as they cut the tree.  It is not known just how the accident occurred.

The body of little Flemming was laid to rest at Mt. Vernon Friday afternoon.  
His death was a sad one indeed and is deeply regretted by the friends of his 
parents and relatives.

Butts County Progress
Week of January 7, 1907


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/flemming2958nw.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 1.5 Kb