Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Eley M.  Wheat December 6 1919
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The Butler Herald, December 11, 1919
The Butler Herald
Thursday, December 11, 1919
Page Two

E.M. Wheat, Prominent Columbus Druggist Dead

His Death Was Caused by a Pistol Shot Through the Heart Self-Inflicted

Columbus, Ga., Dec. 7 – For reasons unknown to his family and friends, Mr. Eley 
M. Wheat, aged 56, president and manager of the Wheat Drug Company and for many 
years one of the most prominent and popular citizens of this community died at 
his home at 602 Broad Street yesterday morning at 8 o’clock, from the effects 
of a pistol shot in his left breast, self-inflicted.

It is said that Mr. Wheat had not been in the best of health for some time past 
and that he had become considerably nervous same time he continued to look 
after his business affairs and when one went into his place on Broad Street Mr. 
Wheat, if it were so he could to so, would greet the visitor in a most cordial 
and genial manner.  Mr. Wheat knew nearly everybody and nearly everybody knew 
him, therefore in the vast majority of cases when he met a person it was the 
meeting of two personal friends, for all who knew him regarded him as a friend


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