Pulaski-Wilcox-Montgomery County GaArchives Obituaries.....McDuffie, Captain Norman January 18, 1872
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PULASKI COUNTY,GEORGIA, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, Volume I., 1867 - 1875, By: Tad Evans See page 138 for date, Thursday, January 25, 1872., See pages 139 & 140 for Obituary (Article)
PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Volume I
1867-1875
By: Tad Evans
See Page 138 For Date
Thursday,  January 25, 1972
See Pages 139 & 140
For Obituary (Article)

A SAD ACCIDENT --  CAPT. NORMAN MCDUFFIE KILLED.

   It is seldom we are called upon to chronicle a sadder or more unfortunate 
occurrence that the killing of Capt. Norman McDuffie by the cars at Dillard’s 
Station, Macon and Brunswick Railroad, on Thursday last, while he was on his 
way to Texas.  When the news was received by telegraph an hour after the 
accident, our citizens were grief stricken at the sad fate that had befallen 
one whom they had known and esteemed so long.  But few men could claim more 
friends in this community and vicinity than Capt. McDuffie.  For long years 
(indeed, we might say his entire life) he had been identified with the 
interest of our section, and during that time, endeared himself to a host of 
the best citizens of this and adjoining counties.   Two years ago he he 
removed to Texas, accompanied by his family and a few friends who yet remain 
in that far-off-state, and to whom the mournful tidings of his untimely death 
will be an  almost unbearable weight of sorrow.
   The remains of the deceased were brought down on Thursday night’s train and 
buried at the cemetery in this place on Saturday last, the Masonic brethren of 
Mount Hope Lodge paying the usual honors to a departed member of their 
fraternity.  The business houses of the town were closed on the occasion, and 
a large number of citizens joined in the procession.  There were many sad 
hearts that day.  A  man we may say everbody liked had gone to his final 
resting place.  May mother  earth gently o’er him, and his soul find rest in 
that better world unknown to mortals.

NORMAN MCDUFFIE died January 18. 1872.  Born Montgomery county January 15, 
1809, and was 63 years and 3  days at death.

Same date:  SAD ACCIDENT AT BULLARD STATION.  CAPTAIN NORMAN MCDUFFIE KILLED.  

   Thursday morning as the up passenger train on the Macon and Brunswick road 
was passing Bullard Station, Capt. Norman McDuffie stepped from the car while 
the train was yet in motion and when walking up the platform steps to enter 
the depot, slipped and fail between the moving train and the platform and  was 
instantly crushed to death.  These are the particulars as nearly we could get 
them, and suppose they are in the main, correct.  Captain McDuffie  was about 
fifty years  of age and has been for many years an influential citizen of 
Pulaski County, until two years ago, when he removed to Texas.  A short since 
he returned to visit his old friends and acquaintances, and had just strated 
back to his home and family.  Alas’  Alas’  he will never reach them.  Several 
persons from Hawkinsville were in company with him enroute for Texas where 
they propose settling.  Captain McDuffie will be remembered as  the gentleman 
who had during the war, a considerable controversy with General Howell Cobb in 
regard to a stean
Mer sezed by the General on the Ocmulgeeriver while in command of this 
district.  He was well known throughout this section, and his death has 
brought sadness to many hearts – Telegraph.



Additional Comments:
Compiler Notes:  A complete sketch of Captian Norman McDuffie Family appears 
in “PIONEERS OF WIREGRASS GEORGIA”  Volume 10., published by The Huxford 
Genealogical Society at Homerville., Georgia.  See Pages 324, 325 & 326 for 
this family.


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