Butts-Monroe County GaArchives News.....Thornton, Rufus - Shot to Death March 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 21, 2011, 6:08 pm Jacksonian Record March 1907 Rufus Thornton – Shot to Death Saturday night at Unionville in Monroe County, Mr. Wirt English shot and instantly killed Mr. Rufus Thornton. A dispute arose and in a few minutes they were fighting, Thornton being shot twice from which he dies in fifteen minutes. Both are young men who stand high and have large family connection throughout the community. Jacksonian Record Week of March 24, 1907 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/thornton2981nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb