Spalding-Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mahala Collins Bankston December 26 1856 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 21, 2003, 7:06 pm Griffin Empire State Newspaper MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT A few days since Mrs. Bankston, the estimable wife of William R. Bankston, Clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts, of Butts County, residing in Jackson, came to her death in a most distressing manner. It appears from information, which we have received, that she had lain down before the fire on a pallet with her little child, and fell asleep. While in this condition, her clothes caught on fire, and before assistance could be rendered, she was so severely burned, that she died in a very short time.- Griffin Empire State. , Additional Comments: I have the original newspaper obituary, part is missing. The child which burned with the mother is not listed in the Family Bible nor any record mentioned. It must have been a new born or very young. Mahala Collins Bankston is buried in the Butts County, Jackson City Cemetery and the grave is marked with a stone. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb