CLAYTON COUNTY, GA - OBITS  J. Jimplecute Jones

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The Griffin Weekly News and Sun, Griffin Ga.
Issue of April 27, 1894

While news was somewhat scarce yesterday, yet we
were pained to learn of the death of our old friend
J. Jimplecute Jones, of Clayton County, which
occurred on the banks of the Flint River on Sunday. 
Friends found him late in the afternoon hanging by
one leg over the river and very dead indeed.  It was
found that he had run his fishing-line over a limb
and tied it to his leg for security. A hundred and
fifty pound cat fish had seized the hood while he
was asleep and promptly pulled Mr. Jones up, holding
him there until dead. Fortunately the fish was found
still on the hook in a neighboring pool, so that
while Mr. Jones' fate points a moral to Sunday
fishermen his family nevertheless have fish to eat
for several days.