Clay County GA Archives Obituaries Mr. Gentry 1903

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Fort Gaines Sentinel 4 Sept 1903 [Fort Gaines,Clay Co Ga]

On last Sunday the family of Mr. ___ Millions, who lives on Mr. Henry Green's place 
in the eastern portion of the county, attended the religious exercises at Antioch 
Primitive Baptist church, a few miles below Bluffton.

After dinner they started to return home, not experiencing any discomforts or sickness, 
when, after going some few miles, one member of the family, a little girl, became 
violently ill. One after another they became desperately ill, until the whole family, 
together with a young Mr. Gentry, who was visiting from Alabama. When they reached
 home in the afternoon, they were all in a desperate condition, and but for the timely 
appearance and aid of a Mr. Milner, they would all have doubless died. Dr. W. W. Calhoun, 
of Bluffton, was procured in time and Mr. Millions' family was relieved somewhat, but 
the young man died on Monday afternoon.

It is supposed that either ptomaine poisionising, the result of eating some meat at 
the dinner Sunday, or some water from an old well on the road side, was the cause of 
the sickness and death."