Toombs County GaArchives Obituaries.....Foskey, Claude March 4, 1956
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The Vidalia Advance 3-8-1956 front Page
                      Toombs Man Is Shot To Death On Altamaha
 LYONS,Ga., March 5----Claude Foskey, 33, was shot and killed near Gray's 
Landing on the Altamaha River about midnight last Sunday night under puzzling 
circumstances
 Sheriff Marvin Meadows said Maxwell Cook, about 25, a friend of Foskey's, 
came in and gave himself up after the shooting. Cook told the sheriff he shot 
Foskey in self-defense.
 Therer were several unexplained aspects of the case, however, Sheriff Meadows 
said. Fosky was killed by a blast from a 12 guage double-barrelled shotgun. 
The charge struck the slain man in the back between the right shoulder blade 
and the spine, the sheriff added.
 Cook has been placed in the Toombs County jail, while the case is being 
investigated, Sheriff Meadows said.
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The sheriff told an Advance reporter Wednesday afternoon that he was still 
investigating the case, but hoped to complete it that (Wednesday) afternoon.
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 Cook told officers that he and Foskey, along with two other young men, had 
gone to the landing, about a quarter-mile from Cook's home in the lower part 
of the county, to try out an outboard motor. Cook and Foskey got into an 
argument and the two other men fled into the swamp and consequently did not 
witness the shooting.
 Meadows said Foskey apparently was unarmed . He had a pocket-knife, the 
sheriff said, but it was in his pocket unopened.
 A native of Toombs County, Mr. Foskey was the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. 
Foskey of Uvalda.
 In addition to his parents, survivors are six brothers, Allen, John , and 
Ezra, all of Uvalda; Denis, Atlanta; Gene, Reidsville; and Lyman, Waycross; 
two sisters, Mrs. Eva Holland, Macon and Mrs. Alton Phillips, Uvalda.
 Funeral services were held Tuesday at 3:30pm at Harden's Chapel Methodist 
Church, conducted by the Rev. David Aycock of Uvalda. Burial was in the church 
cemetery.
 Pallbearers were James Chambers, Charlie NeSmith, Vanoid Mosley, M. J. 
Durden, James Fowler, and George Mosley. Honorary pallbearers were D. L. 
Mosley, Jack Mosley, Edgar Fowler, Earl Fowler, J. C. Sharpe, and Gene NeSmith.
 Trapnell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Additional Comments:
Claude was born 7-10-1922 to George M. Foskey and Sallie Wynn Foskey. His 
Georgia death certificate, #7292, shows the cause of death as a homocide.

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