Butts County GaArchives News.....Mrs. John Grant Ends her life in the Towaliga October 7, 1898 ************************************************ 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 November 18, 2006, 12:46 am Jackson Argus – Butts County October 7, 1898 On Wednesday of this week about 11 o’clock a.m., Mrs. John Grant was found suspended by her clothing to a wire fence in Towaliga river, she had been dead about two hours when her body was recovered. The coroner was immediately summoned to hold an inquest and from this officer we get the following facts regarding the suicide and the events leading thereto” About fourteen months ago John Grant and Mamie Collins were married. It was a runaway match, John was about 20 years of age and Mamie was about 14. For the past year the young couple have been living in the house with Grant’s father’s family, and from some cause, real or imaginary Grant became jealous of his wife and this gave rise to quarrels. On the morning of the 5th about breakfast another quarrel is said to have occurred between the young man and his wife and bout nine o’clock when the men were all away she told her sister-in-law, Lucy Grant , that she was going to drown herself, and started off to the river about half a mile away. Lucy followed and begged her not to commit the rash act. The two talked the matter over for an hour and finally the young wife said, “well, you go back to the house and I will go over and see my mother, awhile.” So the sister went home and said nothing about what had occurred until some one inquired where Mamie was. Then she told about the conversation she had had with her sister-in-law. Immediately a message was sent to the home of Mrs. Jack Collins and there it was learned that the young woman did not go there. Immediately a party went in search, going toward the river. Some thirty feet from the river bank on a stump were found a bonnet, pocket knife, hairpins and a handkerchief belonging to Mrs. Grant. The river was then dragged. About thirty yards below the place where the articles were found is a wire fence running across the river. Suspended to this fence about six feet from the bottom and about three feet from the surface the unfortunate you woman was found. In raising her, her brother-in-law, Joe Grant says he saw a rock wiggling, perhaps, fifteen or twenty pounds drop from a cord tied around her neck. The new cotton apron showed that the binding had bee had been torn off making a strip about half an inch wide. She had tied one end of the string bout her neck and tied a rock to the other end, which showed a cool, deliberate purpose. The body was carried to the house of Mrs. Collins where an inquest was held, and the verdict of drowning by her own hands was rendered by the following jury: A. T. Woodard, D. N. Carmichael, R. B. Harkness, L. L. Britton, and W. D. Compton. The funeral took place at Fellowship Church yesterday, Rev. Sewall of Flovilla conducting the service. Jackson Argus – Butts county Week of October 7, 1898 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/mrsjohng2005gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb