Cobb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Reid, Will February 20, 1881
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The Cherokee Advance 3 Mar 1881 p 3
A Sad Death
From a Knife Stab in the Right Arm

On Saturday night, five weeks ago, one mile from town on the Cassville road, 
near Mr. J. J. Wilder's residence, Mr. Will Reid, son of Mr. Thos. Reid, was 
stabbed in the muscles of his right arm. When found he was very weak from 
the loss of blood.  He refused to tell who his assailants were and was 
carried home and given medical attention.  Although the wound healed up, yet 
he grew physically weaker day by day. His parents became alarmed.  They not 
only had several city physicians, Drs. Reynolds, Moore and Tennent, but sent 
for Dr. Westmoreland, of Atlanta, who made an incision and took considerable 
clotted blood there from.  Dr. W. said to cut the arm off, Reid would die, 
and to leave it on he would die.  The patient's condition was such as to 
warrant no hope of his recovery.  On last Sunday evening, Dr. Westmoreland 
came up and amputated the arm, but the failing mortal was too far gone for 
the operation to result in good.  About ten o'clock that night, Will Reid 
breathed his last breath. 
His dying testimony was taken that day by Justice Campbell and was to the 
effect that Rhoda Bell held him and that Lina Sorrells, nee Bell, run (sic) 
up and stabbed him.  Both are white women, and now in jail.
Mr. Will Reid was about 28 years old, of a good family and of industrious 
habits.  Besides parents, a brother and sister, he leaves a wife and three 
children to mourn his sad and untimely death.  He was buried last Monday 
evening.--Marietta Journal.



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