Dawson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Howard, Andrew January 19, 1887
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The Cherokee Advance (Canton, Ga.)   Friday 28 January 1887 p 3
Brutal Murders
Mr. D. A. McNaira, the energetic salesman of Megee and Maddox, of Atlanta, was 
in town last Saturday, and reported to The Advance that, on Wednesday of last 
week, a party of men, in ambush, fired upon Mr. Andy Howard, of Yellow Creek, 
Dawson county, near the residence of J. A. Heard. 
One of the five shots took effect in the leg, making an ugly but not painful 
flesh wound.  The parties, having emptied their guns without death resulting 
then rushed upon Howard and stamped him so badly that his bowels protruded and 
death ensued in about twenty-four hours.  The inquest was held Friday last, 
but the coroner's verdict has not been learned.  Howard was a revenue 
informer, and was then a witness in the United States court against several of 
his neighbors and suspicion rests against certain parties in the neighborhood, 
who have been engaged in blockading, as the guilty ones. 
A party of disguised men recently fell upon another revenue informer in that 
district, and cut him up very badly, but he is still living.  The parties said 
then they intended killing Howard, and finally succeeded in doing it. Howard 
was a very poor man, about thirty five years of age, and had a family of six 
children, all under eleven years of age, all of whom he gave to his neighbors 
just before he died.  His wife died about nine months ago. 



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