Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Blount, Robert Mitchell January 31, 1937
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1 February 1937; The Brunswick News; pg. 8 col. 4

Self-Inflicted Wound Fatal to Robert Blount
    
	A pistol wound said by officers to have been self-inflicted last 
Wednesday night proved fatal to Robert M. Blount, 66, of Thalmann, PWA 
foreman, who died at the City Hospital yesterday, where he had been lingering 
between life and death since the bullet, narrowly missing his heart, pierced a 
lung.
    	Blount told officers, who went to his home to investigate the shooting 
and before he was removed to the hospital that he was to [sic] old to work, 
was tired of living, and said he shot himself.  "I'd rather be dead than be in 
the fix I am in," he was quoted as telling the officers.
    	Blount had resided in Thalmann district practically all of his life.  
He had been in bad health for the past two or three years, it was stated today.
    	He is survived by his wife, five children, George and William Blount, 
of Thomasville, John R. Blount, of Palatka, Fla., Mrs. Ella Blount and Albert 
C. Blount, both of Thalmann; two brothers, W.T., of Brunswick, and L. Blount, 
of Thalmann, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Jones, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. 
T.K. Howe, of Thalmann.
    	Funeral services were held at 3:00 o'clock this afternoon, at Blount's 
Crossing cemetery, conducted by the Rev. W.L. Sweat, of Waycross.  Baldwin & 
Edge were in charge of funeral arrangements.


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