Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Linton, Lawson December 1877 ************************************************ 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: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 May 5, 2017, 3:52 am The Butler Herald, December 18, 1877 The Butler Herald, December 18, 1877, page 2, Presented online by the Digital Library of Georgia Sad Accident The Thomasville Times has the following fatal accident recorded. “On Saturday last Mr. John L. Linton and Mr. Frank M. Jones went out hunting. They were riding horseback, and Mr. Linton carried his young son, Lawson, between seven and eight years of age behind him. Sometime during the afternoon they both dismounted and left Lawson to hold the horses. They went off some little distance and Lawson commenced riding toward them, but soon got into a boggy place, when it seemed as if the horse he was leading might pull him off. His father called to him to turn Frank’s horse loose and hold on to the one he was on. He did this, and seemed to be getting along all right for a while, but the horse getting deeper into the bog commenced plunging and threw the little fellow off, his foot catching in the stirrup. The horse ran kicking and jumping toward Mr. Linton, who seeing the danger to his boy, fired both barrels of his gun at the horse, but without stopping him. Lawson’s foot got loose soon afterwards and they ran to him, but life was almost extinct – he gasped once or twice and was gone. The deceased was a very bright, intelligent boy, and the pride of the family. Additional Comments: Transcriber's note: I'm not related to the Linton family and do not have additional information about them. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/obits/l/linton14733ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb