Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Audie Chandler April 1919
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(Cedartown Standard, Thursday, April 17, 1919) 
Audie Chandler, the sweet little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chandler, who 
was killed by an automobile at Fish Tuesday, was buried in the New Prospect 
cemetery Wednesday. Funeral services were conducted by Revs. J. A. Edge and 
Lynn Parris. The schoolboys of Fish, were the pallbearers. She was ten years 
old, and is survived by her parents, her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. 
Chandler, five sisters and one brother, Mesdames Horace Dobson and Heslep 
Dansby and Misses Inez, Glenna and Ludie and Master Talmadge Chandler. The 
heartbroken family have much sympathy in their sad and sudden loss. (Cedartown 
Standard, Thursday, April 17, 1919) 
The tragedy of last Tuesday here at Fish has aroused the feelings of the people 
to a state almost unbearable. The people of your city have a speed law of 8 
miles per hour for the protection of both lives and property, and you have 
sidewalks for your children to use going and coming from school. Here we have 
nothing but the public roads for our children to walk in, and as The Standard 
of last week says, we have had some very close calls, at least two the same day 
this awful, uncalled for tragedy occurred. It seems like when a lot of the 
motorist get out of town they simply pull the bridle off their cars, as it 
were, and turn them loose regardless of the consequences, and when I saw this 
man Barber make the dare-devil dash, on the wrong side of the road, and a curve 
at that, running the speed he was running, I knew if there wasn’t from one to a 
half-dozen children killed, it would be nothing short of a miracles; and the 
consequence was the sweet little ten-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. 
Chandler was taken without any warning except the noise of Dr. Trumbo’s and 
Barber’s cars. They were making a noise we will not soon forget. She was about 
thirty feet from the center of the road when she was struck, and her little 
life snuffed out almost in an instant. We take this method of warning the 
general public we will go before the next Grand Jury and endeavor to have those 
who have been running so reckless and endangering the lives of our children 
indicted, and will continue going from time to time till this reckless driving 
is stopped. I will by the help of the good people of this community, have this 
reckless driving stopped, regardless of sex color or Kind. I. J. Stephenson, 
Fish GA. (Cedartown Standard, Thursday, April 17, 1919) 


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