Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Faver, Isiah "Tunny" November 1879 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 24, 2006, 11:22 pm "The Carroll County Times Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 14, 1879 GEORGIA News The Franklin News gives the following account of a fatal accident which happened lately in that county: "Last Saturday night at the residence of Mr. Camp, seven miles north of Franklin, occurred one of the saddest accidents it has been our duty to record. An idiot son of Mr. Sanders Faver, about 23 years of age, was accidentally shot and almost instantly killed by Mr. Jesse Camp, one of Heard county's most highly respected young men. The particulars of the sad affair are about as follows. It seems that the deceased was very fond of hunting and would frequently take his father's dogs and go out rabbit hunting. On Saturday evening last, he took the dogs, two or three in number, and went off into the woods hunting. About night, he went to Mr. William Jackson's and stopped and ate supper. After supper Mr. Sam. Jackson started home with the deceased, but before they got there, Mr. Jackson's dogs treed a possum near the road, and Mr. Jackson thinking that the deceased could find his way home, there being no road to mislead him, pointed out the way to him and went to catch the possum. The deceased went on towards home with his dogs, and when he came to Mr. Camp's, who lives on the road he was traveling, Mr. Camp's dogs barked at him; he hissed his dogs on, and they jumped over into the yard and commenced fighting Mr. Camp's dogs. Mr. Jesse Camp hearing the noise, took his double barreled gun and rushed out on the piazza and seing the deceased sitting down in the road and thinking he was a dog, took aim and fired, the whole load entering his left breast, killing him almost instantly. One of the dogs ran up to the deceased and Mr. Camp seeing it, discharged the other barrel of his gun at it. The dog fell and commenced howling and he went out to knock it in the head when he was horrified to see poor unfortunate "Tunny" Faver lying dead on the ground. He went back into the house and told the sad story to his father and mother and a runner was sent with the sad intelligence to the parents of the deceased. The news spread like wild-fire and by midnight a large crowd had gathered at the scene of the accident. This unfortunate affair will bear heavily upon Mr. Camp's feelings. He has the sympathy of everybody in the community. Additional Comments: 1870 Census - Heard Co., GA; Franklin P.O.; pg. 373B Enumerated on 6 July 1870 - HH #529-506; lines 13-18 Faver Sanders W. 62 M W Farmer 2,500 1,185 Ga. Faver Caroline A. 51 F W Keeping House Ga. Faver Harriette I. 19 F W At Home Ga. Faver Lewis D. 16 M W At School Ga. attend school w/in last year Faver Isaiah 14 M W At Home Ga. deaf / Idiot Faver Cora Alice 7 F W Ga. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/heard/obits/f/faver5975gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb