Smith Family Cemetery
McDuffie County, Georgia, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosTimes-Picayune, 20 Mar 1897, page 2, column 5
AN OLD VETERAN
Killed His Two Boys and Shot Himself
Atlanta, Ga., March 10, -- A special from Harell [sic, Harlem], Ga., tells of a horrible tragedy committed eight miles south of that place yesterday afternoon. Wright Smith, a one-legged confederate veteran, went to Thompson [sic, Thomson] yesterday, drew his pension and went home. He paid some debts in the neighborhood and then asked his three children to go with him to feed some hogs. For some reason, his oldest, a girl of about 8, refused to go. He carried the two youngest, both boys, aged 2 and 4 years, to a cotton-house, where he crushed their brains out with his crutch, and then sent a pistol ball through his own brains. He lived for several hours, but never spoke. An empty laudanum bottle was found near, and the supposition is that he took the contents before shooting himself. No cause has been assigned for his committing this awful deed. He was not a drinking man. He was about 50 years old.
Times-Picayune, 20 Mar 1897, page 2, column 5
AN OLD VETERAN
Killed His Two Boys and Shot Himself
Atlanta, Ga., March 10, -- A special from Harell [sic, Harlem], Ga., tells of a horrible tragedy committed eight miles south of that place yesterday afternoon. Wright Smith, a one-legged confederate veteran, went to Thompson [sic, Thomson] yesterday, drew his pension and went home. He paid some debts in the neighborhood and then asked his three children to go with him to feed some hogs. For some reason, his oldest, a girl of about 8, refused to go. He carried the two youngest, both boys, aged 2 and 4 years, to a cotton-house, where he crushed their brains out with his crutch, and then sent a pistol ball through his own brains. He lived for several hours, but never spoke. An empty laudanum bottle was found near, and the supposition is that he took the contents before shooting himself. No cause has been assigned for his committing this awful deed. He was not a drinking man. He was about 50 years old.
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- Added: 22 Jul 2011
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2411313
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