Cobb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, William M. November 1879
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Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 25, 2006, 12:41 am

"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 26, 1879

The people of Cobb county are agitated about the body snatching incidents. 
William Johnson, an old gentleman, recently died in that county and was 
buried 7 or 8 miles from Marietta on the Roswell road at a Baptist church. 
Not long since, it was discovered that his grave had been opened and his 
body taken away. Suspicion pointed to a colored janitor of one of the 
Atlanta medical colleges as one of the guilty parties. He was arrested and 
carried to Cobb county where he was tried and found guilty. The penalty for 
robbing graves is $1000. or twelve months on the chain gang, or both, and 
applies to the party buying the body as well as the thief.


Additional Comments:
1880 U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule
Name: Wm M Johnson 
Gender: Male  
Race: White  
Marital Status: Married  
Place of Birth: Georgia  
Estimated birth year: abt 1818  
Age: 62  
Month of Death: Nov 
Cause of Death: Hypertrophy of Heart  
Place of Death: Merritts and Post Oak, Cobb, Georgia

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