Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ratchford, Dick July 1883
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Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga, July 25, 1883
Cedartown, Georgia
Shot and Killed
Special to the Constitution:
   Cedartown, July 23,---Late on Saturday evening, within some four hundred 
yards of his dwelling house, situated four miles northwest of this place, Dick 
Ratchford, colored, received two gunshot wounds, which produced his death on 
yesterday.  I am informed that previous to his death, Ratchford stated to his 
physician and others, that George Kirk, white, was the person who shot him.  
Kirk was arrested early yesterday morning at his home in the neighborhood of 
the crime, brought here and placed in jail.  It was known for sometime past 
that bad feelings existed between the parties. (Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, 
Ga, July 25, 1883)


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