Spalding-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Benjamin M Harwell  August 22 1916
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Griffin Daily News and Sun, August 23, 1916

B.M. Harwell Killed By W. Coggin Tuesday
  Two Williamson Men Fight to the Death with no Witnesses.
  Coggin is in Jail at Zebulon

Benjamin M. Harwell, of Williamson, aged thirty six years, was shot and
instantly killed Tuesday evening by Will Coggin, who used a shot gun 
charged with buck shot.
There were no witnesses of the shooting and Coggin claims that the first
shot was fired by the dead man.  Immediately after killing Harwell, Coggin
surrendered to the officers and was carried to the county jail in Zebulon.
The trouble originated over the mowing of grass it is thought, on land that 
Coggin had rented to Harwell.  The two men married cousins and are well known.
Besides his widow, Harwell is survived by three children, Mrs. Ella Mae 
Sanders, Miss Willie Kate Harwell, and Roy Harwell.  He was at one time a 
resident of Griffin and is well known here, being a brother to Joe Harwell and 
Mrs. I.B. Ruffin.
The funeral took place at Mt. Gilead church at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.

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