Hall County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Grant - Prater Cemetery - Complete Survey
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Carolyn Golowka cgolowka@prodigy.net September 3, 2004, 12:03 pm

Abstracted By: Sybil McRay on April 22, 1968

Grant Ford Road, off Cool Springs Road, across the road 
from WOW Camp (description written in 1968)

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth          Death          Comment
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Grant         James         A.            July  4, 1854  Dec. 16, 1884  
Prater        Josiah                      Oct. 17, 1862  Dec. 16, 1884  Assassinated



Additional Comments:
Tradtion says these two men had a still on the property.  Government men came 
and shot the men on the spot.  The men were buried where they were killed.  One 
headstone has both names.

Permission to reprint on the internet was given by Sybil McRay before she died.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/hall/cemeteries/gcm61grantpra.txt

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