MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Dr. Joseph R. Waldrop

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Subject: Dr. Joseph R. Waldrop, Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia 1832-1932 


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                    Found in Columbus Ledger Enquirer.

                      Joseph Ryan Waldrop 1825-1870

Information received from the Mobile Register Newspaper
Mobile, Alabama, Mobile County. August 16, 1870
October 1, 2002. Copied October 2, 2002
Copied by Sandra Lee Waldrop Doolittle

Cobalt Blue Book 1832-1932 Columbus, Georgia Deaths
Deaths Listed in Columbus, Georgia, Muscogee County
Bradley Library, Archive Room
Bradley Library Bradley Drive off Wynnton Road

October 4, 2002 (Copied by Sandra Waldrop Doolittle)
Shared with Juanita Waldrop Hirsch, Tamworth, Stafford-
shire , England-October 2, 2002.)

Murder in Washington County, Ala.

...The Mobile Register of the 16th inst.,
says Dr. Jere Saunders, of Washington
County, has call on  us this morning and
placed in our hands the following state-
memt concerning another atrocity of
which a gentleman and a Democrat  is
the victim. Dr. Waldrop represented 
Washington County at the last session of the
Legislature. The circumstances indicate
with sufficient plainness the present deed
as another Radical murder:

                                         
Escatawpa, Washington,Co. Ala.
                                                      
August 14, 1870
                                       
Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia
                                                       
Bradley Library
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A most foul murder was perpetrated on
the  person of Hon. J. R. Waldrop, of this
County, on the evening of the 13th inst.
near  this place, and there no Officer 
near us to summons a jury of inquest.  we 
have constituted ourselves committee of
investigation and report the facts. of 
the case as need as possible.

On the evening the above stated, about
half past 6 o'clock, as he was going home
from his place of bussiness, Dr. Waldrop 
was ambushed and shot about one-third of
a mile from his place. Thirteen large 
buckshots entered his breast ranging
diagonally across from left to right. The
party or parites who perpetrated the deed 
were not more than 12 yards distant.

We have  exerated ourselves to the ut
most of our ability, but can get no clue
whatever as to committed  the foul deed.

Committee....E. F. Kendall, chairman
J. J. Laird, A. O. Donald, J. Davis, Geo.
Pettus, P. Grimes, Jere Saunders, W. D.
Wainwright, W. O. Norris, C. A. Buroh,
J. Byrd,  P. Lee, J. Rogers

                                                        
J. A. Thomas, Clerk of Com.

COBALT BLUE BOOK 1832-1932 DEATHS IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
MUSCOGEE COUNTY. BRADLEY LIBRARY, BRADLEY DRIVE OFF
WYNNTON ROAD.

COPIED : OCTOBER 2, 2002 BY SANDRA WALDROP DOOLITTLE.

WALDROP, HON. J.R. A STATE REPRENTATIVE, AMBUSHED AND
KILLED; (13, AUG. 1870) WASHINGTON COUNTY, CO., ALA.