Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....West, Lump 1919
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Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA., Thursday, March 20, 1919
Lump West, Suicide is an unusual crime for a negro to commit, but Polk 
furnished a case last week in old Lump West, an industrious and inoffensive 
darkey near Berrys. He left home Wednesday, saying he was going to Priors. When 
he did not return by Sunday a search was made for him, his wife giving the clue 
by telling of his rambling talk about drowning. The old fellow bought some 
whiskey from another negro during the flu epidemic, and on his reluctant 
testimony the other was convicted of selling liquor. Because he told the truth 
about it, the other negro’s friends had him indicted for having whiskey in his 
possession. The trouble preyed on his mind to such an extent that he committed 
suicide, his body being found Sunday in a little branch in about eighteen 
inches of water. He had taken off his clothes and laid them neatly folded on 
the bank before going to his watery bed. Coroner J. O. Crabb held an inquest, 
which brought out the facts. (Cedartown Standard, Thursday, March 20, 1919) 


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