Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Butler, James Bennett  Jr. 1958
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The Camilla Enterprise 3 Jan 1958

Obituary of James "Jimmy" Bennett Butler Jr. as written on page 4 of "The 
Camilla Enterprise" dated 3 Jan 1958. Camilla, Georgia.  

J. Bennett Butler, Sr., son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Butler, of Camilla, 
now a resident of High Springs, Fla., watched a loading train fatally injure 
his teenage son when the boy climbed beneath the train to retrieve a pigeon.  
James (Jimmy) Bennett Butler, age 16, died in a Gainesville, Fla., hospital 
Sunday from injuries received Saturday when the boy and his friends were pigeon-
shooting at his father's peanut plant in High Springs.  His father was standing 
on the loading platform when the train pulled off.  Among his survivors are his 
parents; Maternal grandfather; aunts, Mrs. Eloise B. McDonald and Miss Gussie 
Butler, of Camilla; uncles, Robert Butler of Camilla and H. P. Butler, now 
living in Bainbridge.  The two aunts and two uncles left immediately for 
Florida upon receipt of the news of the accident and subsequent death.  Funeral 
services were held Monday afternoon at four o'clock at the High Springs 
Methodist Church with burial in the High Springs cemetery.



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