Butts-Monroe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hickerman, John 1897
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Jackson Argus – Week of January 7, 1897
Hickerman -Tragedy in Monroe

Forsyth, January 4, 1897

The details were received in this today of one of the most horrible tragedies
ever enacted in Monroe county.

John Hickerman, who was one of the most prosperous and influential farmers in
this county and a young man of considerable wealth, living six miles from here,
shot and fatally wounded his young wife in their home Saturday night and
believing her dead turned the pistol upon himself inflicting a wound from which
he died yesterday.

The tragedy was enacted after the supper hour in the sitting room of their home
and there was no one present to witness the shooting.

A statement made by the dying man shortly before he died was to the effect that
the discharge of the pistol was accidental the first time and that in the
desperation of the moment believing his wife dead, he attempted to accompany her
in death.

This, however, is not regarded as the straight story of the tragedy.  It is
claimed that Hickerman was insanely jealous of his wife and that the only
disturbances between them were traceable to that one cause.  It is believed that
in a moment of jealousness he shot his wife and himself, possibly after a family
quarrel.

Mrs. Hickerman, who is still lingering, is unable to give her version of the
affair and she will possibly never do so, as death is now only a question of a
few hours at best.

The Hickermans were exceptionally influential in the community and the tragedy
has cast a shadow of gloom over Monroe county.    They were both young and Mrs.
Hickerman was regarded as one of the most beautiful ladies in that section of
the county.

It is said that she was very fond of her husband and that in fact he had no
foundation for the jealousy that he is known to have existed.




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