Pike County GaArchives News.....Robert Patton Killed August 16 1901
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net October 18, 2003, 10:02 pm

The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia

Robert Patton Killed

Wednesday night at Blanton’s Mill about twelve miles from here Robert Patton 
was shot and instantly  killed by Forest McNorton. Patton is about 25 years of 
age and a good farmer. McNorton is from Indiana and is not well known in this 
section.

Robert Patton and his brother Tom were fishing at the mill crossing it is said, 
Robert being on one side of the stream and Tom on the other. McNorton and Lum 
Cannady who had been to Brooks Station came by about midnight in a buggy, saw 
young Patton standing in the bushes in a few feet of the bridge and McNorton 
asked who it was. Patton made no reply. McNorton drew his pistol and told him 
he would make him talk, opened fire and the ball took effect just below the 
heart, death resulting instantly. The men in the buggy drove across the bridge 
and went on a mile further when Cannady went back to see if Patton had been 
hurt.

Tom Patton it appears was not aware that his brother has been killed and this 
discovery was made some forty minutes after the tragedy was enacted.

Many are of the opinion that the deed was perpetrated with out any provocation 
and much indignation is expressed. 

(Transcribed 10/13/03 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
At Williamson Methodist Church Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia:
Robert E. Lee Patton, b. 5 Apr. 1875, d. 14 Aug. 1901

Robert Patton was a son of James H. Patton and Nancy Leak Yarbrough.

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