Jasper County GaArchives News.....Woman Shot by the Jasper Mormon Mob, Fatally Injured August 11 1899
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The Georgia Enterprise
     Mrs. William Cunnard, who was shot in the face two weeks ago, by the 
Jasper County Mormon mob, is in a critical condition and not expected to live. 
She has been growing weaker every day since the fated night, so we are informed 
by reliable citizens from the community, and those best acquainted with her 
condition think it impossible for her to recover.
     Mrs. Cunnard is a very stout woman, weighing about 250 pounds and has been 
very active all her life. when the mob attacked the elders she followed and 
attacked one of the men. She grabbed him by the coat collar, and with one hand 
grasped the gun in the hands of the man. A fierce struggle ensued. She was bent
on finding out the name of the masked man, and would have done so, had not the 
gun gone off, and tore her jaw off. This frightened the mob so badly that they 
turned  the elders a loose, a few hundred yards from the house, and told them 
to “burn the wind, and never put their appearance in the community again.”
     The Mormons were badly frightened and assert that they would have been 
lynched had Mrs. Cunnard not been shot. They stoutly assert that they will do 
no more missionary work in Jasper.


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