Butts-Monroe County GaArchives News.....Willie Ham – Shot July 28 1883
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Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 27, 2004, 3:49 am

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of July 28, 1883
A considerable excitement was noticed at the High Falls in Monroe County, by 
the announcement that Mr. Willie Ham had been shot and killed by Charlie 
Wright.  

From various reports that have reached us we gather the following:

An old feudal had existed for some time between Charlie Wright and Cape Ham and 
on Wednesday morning they, the two Ham brothers, Cape and Willie, and Charlie 
Wright and his brother Will met in the road near Unionville, when the 
difficulty was renewed between Charlie Wright and Cape Ham, when Mr. Willie 
Ham, either in his efforts to take a pistol from the hands of Charlie Wright, 
or in his own defense or otherwise, he was shot through the breast and 
instantly killed by Charlie Wright.  The coroner’s jury made it a case of 
murder but the reports are somewhat conflicting.  Wright immediately made his 
escape and is yet at large.  Mr. Willie Ham was a quiet inoffensive, law 
abiding citizen, and a strict member of the Methodist church and was well 
beloved by the people of the whole community.  He leaves a wife and four 
children to mourn his loss.




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