Whitfield-Catoosa-Cobb County GaArchives News.....None July 24 1879
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Deaths Reported in Cobb County, GA, Newspapers - Vol I
One Joseph Standing and two other Mormons have been tramping around in upper 
Georgia with a view to persuade converts to go to Utah.  Some ill feeling in 
Whitfield and Catoosa Counties was created against them.  Near Ringgold last 
Monday, a squad of citizens met the Mormans in the road and concluded to 
chastise them.  One of the citizens laid his pistol on the ground, when 
Standing jumped and seized it and demanded the surrender of the entire party.  
One of the citizens was equally as quick and fired, shooting Standing in the 
head, killing him instantly.  The other Mormons were not molested.

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Reported in the Marietta Journal, Issue of July 24, 1879.

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