Harris-Muscogee County GaArchives News.....Obit of Joseph Ryan Waldrop 1827-1870 August 14 1870
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Columbus Ledger Enquirer  August 14, 1870
The Hon. Joseph Ryan Waldrop 1827-1870 lived in  Hamilton Georgia,Harris County Georgia for fourteen years. 

This article was found in the Columbus, Georgia, Muscogee County, in the Ledger
Enquirer, August 1870, in the Bradley Library.

Name: Joseph R. WALDROP
Given Name: Joseph R.
Surname: WALDROP
Sex: M
Birth: 1827 in GA
Death: 13 Aug 1870 in Escatawpa,Washington Co.,AL
Title: Dr.Rev. Retail Merchant, Justice of the Peace, KKK, Sgt. in the Civil 
War, Hon. Joseph Ryan Waldrop, State Rep. of Washington County, Alabama. Served
with Gov. Smith  in Montgomery Capital in Montgomery Alabama 1868 until 1870.


DEATH: Found in Columbus Ledger Enquirer by Sandra Doolittle.

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Joseph Ryan Waldrop 1827-1870

Information received from the Mobile Register Newspaper Mobile, Alabama, Mobile
County. August 16, 1870. Cobalt Blue Book 1832-1932 Columbus, Georgia Deaths.
Deaths Listed in Columbus, Georgia, Muscogee County Bradley Library, Archive
Room Bradley Library Bradley Drive off Wynnton Road.

Murder in Washington County, Ala.
..The Mobile Register of the 16th ins., says Dr. Jere Saunders, of Washington
County, has call on us this morning and placed in our hands the following
statement concerning another atrocity of which a gentleman and a Democrat is the
victim. Dr. Waldrop represented Washington County at the last session of the
Legislature. The circumstances indicate with sufficient plainness the present
deed as another Radical murder:
Escatawpa, Washington,Co. Ala. August 14, 1870

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A most foul murder was perpetrated on the person of Hon. J. R. Waldrop, of this
County, on the evening of the 13th inst. near this place, and there no Officer
near us to summons a jury of inquest. We have constituted ourselves committee of
investigation and report the facts of the case as need as possible.

On the evening the above stated, about half past 6 o'clock, as he was going home
from his place of business, Dr. Waldrop was ambushed and shot about one-third of
a mile from his place. Thirteen large buckshots entered his breast ranging
diagonally across from left to right. The party or parities who perpetrated the
deed were not more than 12 yards distant.

We have exerated ourselves to the utmost of our ability, but can get no clue
whatever as to committed the foul deed.
Committee....E. F. Kendall, chairman J. J. Laird, A. O. Donald, J. Davis, Geo.
Pettus, P. Grimes, Jere Saunders, W. D. Wainwright, W. O. Norris, C. A. Buroh,
J. Byrd, P. Lee, J. Rogers, J. A. Thomas, Clerk of Com.
COBALT BLUE BOOK 1832-1932 DEATHS IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY. BRADLEY
LIBRARY, BRADLEY DRIVE OFF WYNNTON ROAD.


Additional Comments:
Hon. Joseph Ryan Waldrop was survived by his wife Sarah Baxter of Escatawpa,
Alabama, Washington County and two sons James Harry and Joseph Ryan Waldrop, Jr.
Other children: Georgian Waldrop Thorton, Stephen Waldrop, Joseph Mark Henry Waldrop

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