Peach-Crawford-Houston County GaArchives Obituaries.....Handcock, John C.  June 8 1887
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The Atlanta Constitution
JOHN C. HANCOCK SHOT DEAD BY A YOUNG MAN.
 
Fort Valley, Ga., June 8 --(Special)-- John c. Hancock, and old citizen of 
Crawford county, was shot and instantly killed yesterday afternoon in his 
field, about seven miles about Knoxville, by Rome Barnett, a nineteen-year- 
old, son of Jack Burnett. The older Burnett and Hancock were in a dispute about 
hogs, young Burnett being present. After a little he went to the house and 
returning with a double-barrel shot gun, fired at Hancock, killing him at once. 
This account is obtained from the mail carrier between this place and 
Knoxville. Burnett had not been arrested when the mail man left this morning, 
but the sheriff was in search of him.


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