Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....J H Russell  June 25 1916
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Griffin Daily News and Sun, June 27, 1916

Pike County Farmer Blows Own Head Off
J.H. Russell Quarrels with Wife and Whips Children Before Rash Act.
Barnesville, Ga. June 27. -  J.H. Russell, a white farmer about 40 years old 
living several miles north of Barnesville, committed suicide late Sunday by 
shooting himself with a shotgun, placing the muzzle in his mouth and pulling 
the trigger, blowing the entire tip of his head away.  Death followed 
instantly.  A coroner's jury in its verdict today said that he came to his 
death at his own hands.
According to the best information obtainable the act was due to family 
troubles.  He had quarreled with his wife and had whipped his son and his 
daughter, both about grown.  In anger and perhaps in remorse for his conduct, 
he took his gun to the woods a short distance from his home and there shot 
himself.


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