Douglas-Houston-Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Nottingham, ?_______ September 1881
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, SEPTEMBER 23, 1881

There is a great deal of gossip in Douglasville about the killing of a 
gentleman by the name of Nottingham by a Mr. Cook and the wounding of a Mr. 
Mitchell and his son and Mr. Cook, which occurred on last Friday about six 
miles from Douglasville on Gothard's Creek. The coroner's jury expressed in 
their verdict the belief that Cook killed Nottingham in self defense. 

There had been bad feeling between Cook and Mitchell for years and Mitchell's 
boys getting in Cook's field last Friday, brought them together and a general 
row ensued, in which the friends of each took part. Nottingham interfered in 
Mitchell's favor, when Cook shot and killed him. Cook was badly cut up and 
Mitchell received a lick on the head with the butt of the gun in the hands of 
Mahaffey, driving the gun lock through his skull. Mitchell's son was badly 
hurt too. Mahaffey escaped unhurt. It is feared that neither Cook nor 
Mitchell will recover.

Mr. Nottingham's brother, who is a judge of the county court of Houston 
county, with a member of the Legislature of that county, came to Douglasville 
with a new and fine coffin and proceeded to Pleasant Hill church where his 
brother had been buried and took him up and carried him home. Before leaving, 
he swore out a warrant and had Cook arrested and placed under guard as he was 
not able to be moved to jail. Mahaffey has also been arrested and no doubt all 
parties will be brought to justice. Young Nottingham had only been in that 
community about six weeks, stopping with Mitchell. It is said that his father 
was one of the foremost physicians of the city of Macon.

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