Carroll-Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shirey, J. Wilson August 11, 1924
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"The Roanoke Leader" -- Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama
NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, August 13, 1924

A BAD CUTTING AFFRAY IN CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA

Frank Simonton, a nearly grown youth from Centralhatchie, Georgia was a 
caller at the Leader office Monday afternoon. He reported passing a point on 
Highway No. 1 early that morning, just over the line of Heard and Carroll 
counties, where a man named Wilson Shirey was lying dead, his throat having 
been cut by Isham Ballard, both well known white citizens. Ballard's throat 
was also dangerously cut but he was arrested and will be taken to jail. 
According to our information, the trouble arose over the charge that Ballard 
had thrown a rock the day before and struck the sixteen year old son of 
Shirey on the head. The dead man was a renter and left a large family.


Additional Comments:
Georgia Deaths, 1919-98
Name: J. Wilson Shirey 
Death Date: 11 Aug 1924  
County of Death: Carroll  
Certificate: 23582-F  

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