Pike County  Georgia Newspapers - Cauthen - Martin Difficulty 1892
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The Pike County Journal
Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia: February 19, 1892


A Difficulty at Milner

We regret to learn of a difficulty at Milner between two prominent
young men. From the best information at hand the facts are about as
follows:
J.W. Cauthen and Josh Martin are brothers-in-law. There has been a
dispute between Cauthen and Martin about a land line. Both claimed
that they owned a certain portion of woodland and words had followed. On
Wednesday night Cauthen was sitting in W.G. Tyus' store, at Milner,
when Martin walked in accompanied by his brother, who at once began an
attack, wounding Cauthen severely from which he may not recover. Mr.
Cauthen's brother attempted to interfere, but at the point of a
pistol, in the hands of Martins brother, was forced to desist. Mr. Cauthen 
is in quite a precarious condition from the injuries received at the hands
of Martin.

Also:
The Pike County Journal
Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia: February 26, 1892

Fight at Milner

Milner, Feb 23 - Editor Journal: We notice an article in The Journal
of Feb 19th, in reference to a difficulty at this place between Josh
Martin and J.W. Cauthen that has been erroneously reported, and that the
readers of The Journal may get the facts in reference to the matter I
beg space in your columns to give them. In the first place the
difficulty occurred about 9 o'clock in the morning, and not at night.
It is true that Mr. Martin and Mr. Cauthen are brothers-in-law, and that
there has been a dispute for some [time] over a certain land line
which, I am informed, made up only a small part of the cause that led to the
difficulty, the other and more material cause my informant says the
public has no right to know. Taking the land line then as a basis,
the facts are these: Mr. Cauthen, it seems, had crossed over the disputed
line and began cutting some timbers [sp] when Mr. Martin asked him to
desist, when Mr. Cauthen feigning to believe that Mr. Martin intended
to do him some personal injury, had him arrested under a peace warrant.
Before the papers were executed, however, Mr. Martin met Mr. Cauthen
at W.G. Tyus' store and asked him to withdraw the warrant and intended
to make a satisfactory explanation of the whole affair. It was then that
the difficulty occurred with no weapons used by either party except
the fist, and none among the many witnesses present saw any weapon at all
- thus leaving the pistol part of the little tragedy entirely unfounded
in truth.


(Transcribed 10/22/02 Lynn Cunningham)

Note from Lanny Cauthen lcauthen@mindspring.com:
This J. W. Cauthen is believed to be John William Cauthen, son of John Cauthen
and Elizabeth Wilson.  John William Cauthen was born on March 17, 1848 and
died on April 26, 1904.  He served in the Confederate Army and at the age of
41 on Jan. 16, 1890 in Pike Co., he married 19 year old Kate Martin.  She
was born on Jan. 12, 1871 and died on July 12, 1962.  Both are buried at the
Milner Cemetery.  Their three children were:
Doll Coleman Cauthen m. Horace Lyle Chappell.
Mary Willie Cauthen m. S. J. Childers.
John Callaway Cauthen m. Lucy Lee.
source: The Cauthen Family History" by Maryline Cauthen Westenhaver.