Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Daniel G. McCollum 1917
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(Cedartown Standard, July 26, 1917)
Rome, July 30, --Daniel G. McCollum, a 23 year-old farmer, residing at Seney, 
was killed here yesterday by his cousin, Marion Scoggins, who is in the Floyd 
County jail charged with murder. The two had come to Rome from their home on 
the Polk line in Scoggins’ automobile to take two girls riding, through 
Scoggins is a married man with three children. While Scoggins had gone to get 
the girls, McCollum drove the car without his cousin’s permission. A punctured 
tire betrayed the use of the machine to the owner, who reprimanded McCollum. 
This led to a quarrel, and Scoggins drew a small knife, with which he stabbed 
his cousin in the arm. The blade pierced an artery, and the youth bled to death 
while on his way to a hospital. Scoggins at first denied the killing, but 
afterwards admitted it, and claimed self-defense. (Cedartown Standard, July 26, 
1917) 


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