MARION COUNTY, GA - OBITS Eddie Bray Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: John Adams traceradams@cox.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/marion.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Published January 2003 The Taylor Tracer(used with Permission) THE TAYLOR COUNTY HISTORICAL-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC P.O. Box 1925 Butler, GA 31006 $20 yearly membership _____________________________________________ THE BUTLER HERALD Taylor Co., Ga., Tuesday, June 19, 1877 Vol. 1 No. 35 _______________________________________________ A Sad Accident. From the Buena Vista Argus On Thursday last, about one o’clock , Eddie Bray, son of Mr. D. Q. Bray, near Tazewell, was thrown from a wagon and killed. The circumstances as near as we can gather, are as follows: Mr. Bray sent his sons, Eddie and Barto, to the plantation of Mr. W. Stewart, about three miles south of Tazewell, for a wagon. While they were hitching the mules to the wagon, they were very skittish and seemed disposed to run. Barto would not get on the wagon, and told Eddie the mules would run away. But Eddie unconscious of the danger, sprang into the wagon, before he could get seated, the mules bounded off as fast as they could go. They ran about one hundred yards and hit a stump in the center of the road. The wagon was reversed, throwing Eddie eight or ten feet on hard ground. Barto ran as fast as he could to the spot, and when he reached it, saw that his brother was almost dead. He ran for his father, who immediately summoned a physician. He was carried to his home where he lingered until seven o’clock p.m., at which time he died without a struggle. NOTES: Mary Kathryn Kozy mkozy@attglobal.net David Q. BRAY, b. 29 Jan 1830 in Washington Co., GA. I don't have a name for his wife. I have the following listed as his children in my PAF database. I believe I got it from a man who was researching this family, but I'm not sure (I'm working to get all my source data entered... : William J., b. abt. 1857 Edward H., b. abt. 1859, d. 14 Jun 1877 Bartow F., b. abt. 1861 Mary Ann, b. abt. 1864 Georgia Ann, b. abt. 1864 Josephine, b. abt. 1866 Nancy F., b. abt. 1869 I am descended from Hannah Jane BRAY, b. abt. 1811, who was the daughter of Mr. ???? and Mrs. Frances BRAY. Hannah Jane married James WEBB abt. 1826. They had a number of children including my 3rd-g- grandmother Nancy Risby WEBB. Hope that helps someone! Mary Kathryn