Hall County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Grant - Prater Cemetery - Complete Survey
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Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/00012/0002972.html 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:
These men were moonshiners.  When governnment revenue men came to the area
searching for illegal stills, a battle ensued.  James Anderson Grant and
Josiah Prater were shot and killed in the area where they are buried.

Please see:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/hall/newspapers/nw1565moonshin.txt

Josiah Prater was the youngest son of Josiah Prater and Mary Ann Shoopman.

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

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