Butts County GaArchives News.....A SAD CASE March 1882
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of March 23, 1882
In the case of W. H. Head against Wilson Coleman last week Judge Willis ordered 
the sheriff to make a deed and put ;Mr. Head in possession of Mr. Coleman’s 
lands.  It will be remembered that Mr. Head levied a claim on the land last 
fall, a claim of homestead was interposed in behalf of the minor children of 
Mrs. Coleman, deceased.  Mr. Head gave the sheriff an indemnifying bend and 
proceeded with the sale, but the sheriff refused to make a deed until ordered 
by the court.  Court now having ordered the deed to be made the plaintiff in fi-
fa has ordered the sheriff to throw the children and their effects out of doors 
tomorrow, (Tuesday).  This edit of ejectment, has the sound off the Irish 
Landlord in it, to say the least of it.  The case is about as follows;  At the 
Admr. Sale of the Gilmore lands Mr. C. purchased 200 acres of the land for 
$1,500 and to make the payment borrowed $800 dollars from Mr. H. at 20 per cent 
interest which has been running about ten years, Mr. C., claims that he has 
paid about two thousand on the claim since it was first borrowed.

Mrs. Coleman had the land set apart as a homestead for her and her children, 
several years ago.  In early part of last year she was taken down with 
consumption and after a long period of suffering during which her children 
caught the measles, resulting in a severe relapse to some of the ; She died.  
Mr. Coleman had nine persons in the sick bed at one time, and as a consequence, 
lost his crop and exhausted his means, thus rendering him unable to meet his 
obligations given for supplies &c to live on.

He now has no supplies to live on, his children are small and all of them girls 
but one.  It may be that a great deal of his trouble may be attributable to bad 
management, but let that be as it may, the fact remains the same, his family is 
in a deplorable condition, more so, than any case that has come under our 
knowledge in a long time; taken altogether we doubt if Butts County ever had so 
sad a case.  We have felt it a duty to inform ourselves as to the true 
condition of these orphan children, and on Saturday night and Sunday, we find 
them left without any protector except the all-seeing eye above; their father 
having gone to Griffin to see Judge Stewart and ask a hearing. 

 The picture of this one is too sad to dwell upon, and too mortifying to be 
held up before the public, while a great many will treat it with derision; but 
we cant look into that home bereft of a mothers care, with but a scant ration 
of bread, and not a morsel of meat for many days with only two days to remain n 
the place made sacred by all the ties that bind them to the memory of a 
departed mother; the time so near at hand for that harsh injunction, “throw 
them out of doors,” to be obeyed, and remain silent.  We think if there ever 
was a time when that time honored brotherhood(The Masonic fraternity) should 
aid and unfortunate brother, it is now.

And the church at Sandy Creek has a chance to bring the blessings of a just 
ruler upon them, by giving aid to the orphans of a worthy, departed member.  
Will they do it?

Since writing the above we learn that Judge Stewart has granted an injunction 
restraining the sheriff from the eviction until the first of April, when a 
hearing of the case will be granted.

We learn that Mr. Dick Brooks representing Mr. Head came over Monday to have 
them thrown out that day and would have done so, but for the injunction




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