Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....McMichael, Ralph February 1907
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The Jacksonian
Little Ralph McMichael, Suicides with Shotgun

Just as we go to press we learn the sad intelligence of the suicide of little 
Ralph, the eleven year old son of Hon. J. A. McMichael a substantial citizen 
of Jackson.

The facts attending this sad happening is told by the father of the little boy 
as follows:  The boy left school and went out into the country and spent 
Wednesday with a relative.  On his return home I told him he must go back to 
school Thursday morning or I would whip him.  He begged me not to make him go 
back.

We missed him and about half past seven o’clock his sister was searching for 
him and just as she opened the door and looked into one of the rooms of the 
house, the gun fired.

His sister screamed and thought she was shot.  When I reached the room the boy 
was standing with gun in his hand and as I ran in the room he reeled and fell.

The shock to the family is a severe one and the Record extends its heart felt 
sympathy.  The McMichael family is very widely connected by relationship in 
the county.  The mother was Miss Mollie Fletcher, the daughter of Hon. Henry 
Fletcher who died ten years ago.  Both the McMichael and Fletcher Families are 
widely connected and known.  The deceased was loved by his playmates and his 
tragic death will be a blow to each of them

The Jackson Record
Week of February 1, 1907


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