Spalding-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....S. Oscar Little  February 1897
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The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, February 12, 1897

Found Dead In Bed
Sad Story of a Life Wrecked by Drink on Account of Love

Griffin, Ga., Feb. 7. - S.O. Little was found dead in bed at his room over the 
old postoffice this morning at 10 o’clock.

Mr. Little was at one time one of the wealthiest and most prominent men in this 
city, and strickly temperate and moral. A few years ago he became very much 
attached to a beautiful and accomplished society lady here. She rejected him 
and married another. This drove him to drink and he soon became notorious as a 
drunkard.

After leading a drunkard’s life for many years, he decided to reform and left 
Griffin. He went from here to Savannah, where he resided for a number of years. 
Thence he went to various other cities and finally wandered back home. Finding 
his old acquaintances, he again began to drink and the handsome and [?] Oscar 
Little of long ago died a drunkard.

He was last seen at 8 o’clock Friday night in an intoxicated condition. This 
morning his friends sought to call on him in his room to see how he was feeling 
after his late spree. As they could not awake him, they forced the door open 
and found the dead man lying in bed as if asleep with two empty bottles, one 
containing laudanum, by his side. Physicians say he had been dead at least 
forty-eight hours when found, as mortification had set in.

(Transcribed 06/07/03 Lynn Cunningham)

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