Paulding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Potter, Martin March 1880
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, APRIL 9, 1880

GEORGIA News

From the Atlanta Constitution

Paulding, Georgia, March 28th

The body of Mr. Martin Potter, a well known and highly respected citizen of 
this county, was found about 3 o'clock p.m. on the 26th of March, lying on a 
large rock under his machinery near his residence, with his head and 
shoulders in a swift, shallow current, his skull being broken on the left 
side near the top of the head and having other marks of wounds on his 
person. The deceased was first discovered by Mr. H.F. Summers in company 
with Messrs. John James and Tilman R. Potter, who is a son of the 
unfortunate man. It is supposed that he fell from the shafting of his 
machinery, falling against the timbers, and was so severely wounded by the 
fall that having fallen in the swift, shallow current, with his face 
included up the stream he was drowned to death, though the wounds themselves 
were sufficient to have produced his death. Mr. Potter was a man about 75 
years old and had been a consistent member and speaker in public of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. He leaves a bereaved family, a good wife and 
several children and grandchildren. The coroner of the county, Thomas R. 
Ragsdale, empanelled a jury, who after hearing the testimony, returned the 
following verdict: "We the jury, empanelled by Thomas J. Ragsdale, coroner, 
to hold an inquest on the body of Martin Potter, deceased, find that the 
deceased came to his death by a fall from the shafting of his mill."


Additional Comments:
1880 - U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule
Name: Martin Potter 
Gender: Male  
Race: White  
Marital Status: Married  
Place of Birth: South Carolina  
Estimated birth year: abt 1817  
Age: 63  
Month of Death: Mar 
Cause of Death: Fell from & stery mill house  
Place of Death: Militia Districts 1043 and 942, Paulding, Georgia

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