UPSON COUNTY  GA  OBITS   Mr. W. H. Johnston

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Thomaston Times 

AWFUL TRAGEDY
The people of Thomaston were shocked Sunday morning on
reading in the Atlanta papers of the terrible tragedy in
which Mr. W. H. Johnston lost his life. He was well known
in Thomaston were he at one time lived having married a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Trice. The sympathy of
Thomaston people goes out to those affected by the awful
tragedy.  The account of killing as it appeared in the
Atlanta Constitution as follows;

Because a deliver boy left his push cart on the side walk
yesterday afternoon, W.H. Johnston, Mayor of Oakhurst is
Dead, and P.W. Zuber, A former minister, is dying at the
Grady Hospital. 

In the fatal Quarrel, occurred in front of the Mayor's
house, Johnston's Skull was pierced like an eggshell by
Zuber, who  rained  blows upon him with a heavy
scantling, from which protruded a ten-penny nail. Zuber
was shot through the left lung with a pistol in the hands
of his opponent.

Johnston's died almost immediately in the lap of his wife
who ran out of the house and found him lying in the
gutter. 

Clasped in wife's Arm's.

Zuber, staggering down the street out of his mind through
loss of blood , was clasp in the arms of his wife, who
place him aboard a Decatur car and rushed him to the
hospital, where doctors say he cannot live.

The cause of the quarrel was pitifully trivial. The
delivery boy, an employee of Zuber, who was a Grocer,
failed to remove his cart from the sidewalk in front of
the Mayor's house when requested to do so.

Johnston, angered by what he considered the boys
impudence, kicked the cart into the gutter overturning it
and spilling the grocery's in the street. 

The boy telephoned the occurrence to his employer, who
left his store to remonstrate with Johnston. When the two
men met Hot words followed,  which soon led to blows.
Which one was the first aggressor will probably never be
decided. 

Both men were thought Highly of in the community and has
always been in the best of terms with each other. Johnson
has been most energetic in the upbuilding of Oakhurst and
has erected practically every home in the community.
END...... 

NOTES:
W. Hugo Johnson no birthdate; died 1911
Married in Upson County, Ga. April 26, 1899, to
Georgia Alva Trice born 1878; no death date
  Georgia's parents: Robert Franklin Trice and
                     Martha Elizabeth Lewis
W. and Georgia"s children:
1)Cottie Elizabeth Johnson b. April 6, 1900 d. January 17, 1977
   married October 26, 1921 to Colton Reynolds Clark
2)W. Hugo Johnson, Jr. born August 28, 1907