Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Owen, Jesse F. June 23, 1870
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Atlanta Constitution, 26 June 1870
DEATH OF JESSE F. OWEN-WE regret to chronicle the death of our young friend, 
Jesse F. Owen, the result of careless handling of firearms by his own cousin.  
Jesse had been out on Thursday morning practicing with a pistol and left it, 
unloaded, at Colonel Boyd's.  That night as he and his cousin Robert Boyd were 
going to supper, Robert, in a freak of fun, picked up the pistol (which had 
unfortunately been loaded by his little brother) and remarked, "Jesse, I am 
going to shoot you."  Before he had leveled the pistol fairly, it went off, 
placing a ball just above Jesse's right eye.  Jesse lingered for twenty-five or 
thirty minutes in a speechless condition.  None regrets the accident more than 
Robert Boyd, for he loved his cousin.  Young Jesse was born on the 2d of 
October, 1853, and was, therefore, entering upon his eighteenth year.  He was 
buried yesterday afternoon.  Cut down just as he was about to enter upon the 
threshhold of manhood, beloved and respected, we can, with his afflicted family 
and relatives, deeply deplore his untimely decease.

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