Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Chason, Infant February 1920
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The Cairo Messenger, March 5, 1920
Baby Is Fatally Shot By Accident

The twenty months old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chason, a well-known farmer, 
residing about nine miles above Cairo, was accidentally shot and killed on last 
Friday morning by his seven years old brother.  A single barrel shot gun caused 
the tragedy.

It appears that the larger brother had been out hunting early Friday morning 
and when he came in about eight o'clock he stood his gun against the table to 
go to the fire and warm.  The seven year old child and the baby were in the 
room and the older one took the gun and began tampering with it.  The older 
brother, it is understood, stated that the gun was not loaded, but hardly 
before they had time to realize it, the seven year old child had accidentally 
discharged the gun, the load inflicting wounds on the baby from which he died 
almost instantly.

The funeral services were held from Pine Level Church at ten o'clock Saturday 
morning.

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