Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....SUTTON, WARREN January 1927
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SOUTHWEST GEORGIAN, JAN 13 1927
WARREN SUTTON, 60, ONE OF THE LARGEST PLANTERS IN THIS SECTION OF THE STATE, 
AND ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST MEN IN CLAY COUNTY, WAS FATALLY INJURED SHORTLY 
AFTER 5 OCLOCK SUNDAY AFTERNOON, WHEN THE HEAVY TOURING CAR WHICH HE WAS 
DRIVING WENT OVER A FOUR FOOT EMBANKMENT ABOUT SIX MILES FROM FORT GAINES ON 
THE HARTFORD ROAD.
BREEN FERGUSON WHO WAS RIDING WITH MR SUTTON RECEIVED ONLY SLIGHT INJURIES.  
HE STATED  THAT THE CAR WAS TRAVELING AT TERRIFIC SPEED WHEN IT STRUCK A ROUGH 
PLACE IN THE ROAD, CAUSING THE CAR TO JUMP THE EMBANKMENT AND CRASH INTO A 
TELEPHONE POLE, BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.  MR. SUTTON’S SKULL WAS CRUSHED WHEN 
HE WAS THROWN FROM THE CAR.  HE DIED BEFORE MEDICAL ATTENTION COULD BE GIVEN 
HIM.  MR. FERGUSON WAS THROWN FROM THE CAR, BUT FELL IN A SAND BED AND 
RECEIVED ONLY MINOR INJURIES.
MR. SUTTON WAS WIDELY AND POPULARLY KNOWN IN THIS SECTION, WHERE HE HAS 
RESIDED ALL HIS LIFE.  HE WAS UNMARRIED.  BESIDES MANY OTHER RELATIVES HE IS 
SURVIVED BY FOUR SISTERS, MRS. KATIE HAMMOCK OF COLEMAN, MRS. H.R. INGRAM OF 
CLAY COUNTY, MRS. W.B. HATTAWAY OF BRUNDRIDGE ALABAMA AND MR AL MARTIN OF 
MONTGOMERY.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY MORNING AT MOUNT ZION CHURCH IN CLAY COUNTY 
OF WHICH MR SUTTON WAS A MEMBER.  HE WAS BURIED ALONGSIDE THE GRAVE OF HIS 
FATHER, THE LATE E.C. SUTTON WHO DIED SEVERAL YEARS AGO.   (TYPE O IN PAPER.  
FATHER SHOULD BE T.C. SUTTON)


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