WASHINGTON COUNTY, GA -Obituary of Alonzo Wilton Boatright, 1918 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: jasmoore@erols.com Jim Moore Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/washington.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm This is from a Macon paper, but I don't know which one. I found the clipping in my grandmother's bible years ago. He was her oldest brother. Strangely, the obit doesn't mention his parents; His mother didn't die until 1931, and his father didn't die until 1934. I also think that Laura Bulloch may have been his second wife. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obituary of Alonzo Wilton Boatright, 1918, from an unknown Macon newspaper. He was the oldest son of James R. and Lora Hall Boatright, of Tennille, Washington County, Georgia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.W. BOATRIGHT STRUCK BY AUTO, DIES SOON AFTER --------- Street Car Conductor Who Step- ped in Front of Machine Driven by J.D. Bohannon in Mulberry Street Succumbs on the Oper- ating Table --------------- A.W. Boatright, conductor on a North Macon streetcar No. 16, of the Macon Street Railway and Light Company, died on the operating table at the Macon Hospital Monday morning a few minutes after he was struck by a Hudson seven passenger automobile in Mulberry street, near the Grand theater, in front of the relief and rest room of the street railway company. His nose was broken, he sustained bruises and lacerations on the face and his skull was fractured. The body is at Hart’s chapel. Boatright lives (sic) in East Macon and had been in the employ of the railway company a long time. J.D. Bohannon, 752 Spring street, traveling salesman of the Georgia (missing) Company, Locust Grove, Ga., (missing) the car, Will Soloman (sic) and Hen(missing) who were also in the car, picked Boatright up and took him to hospital and offered every assistance. He was bleeding and unconscious. Returning to Car When the accident occurred Mr. Boatright had stopped his car and gone to the relief room to get his salary and was hurriedly returning to the car automobile was going up Mulberry street, and witnesses said he stepped in front of it. Traffic Officer W.S. Stripling, who was on the street car, and several others, said the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Bohannon said he was driving at a low rate of speed and did not see Boatright in time to stop. In an effort to avoid striking him he swerved the machine to the left and sideswiped the street car. He was on the right side of the street, he said, and his statement was borne out by Officer Stripling, Mr. Solomon, and Mr. Jones. at (sic) the time, Mr. Bohannon was demonstrating the machine, which he intended selling, to Mr. Solomon. It was slightly damaged. Lived at Cross Keys Mr. Boatright was forty-three years of age, and made his home at years of age and made his home at five years ago (sic) from Tennille. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Laura Bulloch R. Boatright, of Tennille; two sisters and six mrothers (sic). The body will be taken to Tennille Tuesday at noon for funeral and interment. An inquest was begun by Coroner Lee Wages Monday afternoon at 3:(missing) o'clock at Hart's chapel.