Bell County KyArchives News.....FUNERAL FOR GEORGE COLSON IS TOMORROW June 16, 1924
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, Kentucky June 16, 1924
MAN SHOT BY FLOYD BALL SATURDAY, DIES AT MIDNIGHT

SHOT FIVE TIMES 

Ball to be Examined by Grand Jury this Week  -  Colson's Widow is First Cousin 
to Slayer

Funeral services for George Colson who died early Sunday morning from wounds 
inflicted by Floyd Ball Saturday afternoon will be conducted at 10 o'clock 
tomorrow.  The Rev. Sam P. Martin and the Rev. W. B. Archer will officiate.  
Interment will be in the Colson Cemetery.

Colson was taken to the Brosheer-Brummett hospital after being fatally wounded 
by Floyd Ball in Wallace Gastineau's drug store Saturday afternoon.  He 
recovered consciousness but, so far as is known, made no statement having a 
bearing on the trouble which led to his death. It is reported that there were 
five wounds in his body.  After his death he was taken to Carl Newman's 
funeral parlor where the body was prepared for burial.

The deceased is survived by a wife and six young children; two brothers, Dave 
and Clay Colson; two sisters, Mrs. C. E. Herd and Mrs. J. P. Brashear; and a 
number of more distant relatives.  Mrs. George Colson is a cousin of Floyd 
Ball, who shot her husband.

Pallbearers for the funeral tomorrow morning will be: Charles G. Smyth, Dave 
Colson, William Colson, James Bingham, Chesterfield Rains and Doc Chadwell. 

Floyd Ball, who was incarcerated in the city jail after the shooting, will be 
there pending the investigation of his case by the grand jury.  The 
inquisitorial body is now in session and it is understood Ball's case will be 
taken up within the next day or two.  Should an indictment be returned, the 
matter of bond will be taken up.





Additional Comments:
George Colson was the son of John Calvin and Susan Cottrell Colson and was 
born 02 January 1888, in Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky. 
Colson's shooting was another episode in the Ball-Colson feud in Bell County.

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