Putnam County Herald September 12, 1935

C P "Charlie" Jernigan, 67, of Double Springs, died Thursday afternoon of pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday at 3 p.m. with Rev Dean Stroud officiating. Burial was at Double Springs cemetery.
Mr Jernigan travelled throughout this area for 30 years as a salesman for Phillips and Buttroff, a well known Nashville firm.
For the last 6 years he has been engaged in farming near Double Springs. He was chairman of the corn-hog production control for the last 2 years and has been very active in this work. He was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Methodist church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs Vola Shaw Jernigan; one son, Baxter.
In earlier life, he taught in the public schools of this county. Later he was engaged in the mercantile business at Brotherton and Poplar Grove.
He disposed of his stores and became a traveling salesman.
For several years, he was a resident of Cookeville.
He was an active and influential leader in the democratic party in this county, always a progressive citizen and a staunch friend of education, good roads and all that pertained to the upbuilding of this county.

Shoots Self In Hip In Attempt To Draw Pistol:
Aged Putnam And Jackson Countains Argue Over Taxes: Both Shot: May File Warrants:
Charlie Jernigna, 60, farmer, and a former Double Springs filling station operator, is suffering wounds received near his home at Double Springs last Friday afternoon when he shot himself in an effort to pull a .41 derringer pistol from his hip pocket in an alleged attempt to fire on Jim Godsey, 70.
The pistol fired while he was groping for it, Double Springs residents said, and the bullet lodged in the center of his hip. He was brought to the City Hospital here, where he was treated. The bullet was not extricated.
Baxter Jernigan, son of the self injured man, and Jim Godsey; 70, of Jackson county, were involved in the shooting, the younger Jernigan firing a .12 gauge shotgun, supposedly at Godsey, the shot of which struck acar owned by Rufe Flatt, 40, also of Jackson county, and glanced into Godsey's back.
Mixed Report: According to information given out at Double Springs, Godsey and Jernigan had an argument over some taxes.
Sheriff Hubert Crawford, who is making an investigation of the case, declared that Godsey got mad at Jernigan after Jernigan had sued him. He went to Jernigan's home, according to the sheriff, intent on killing Jernigan.
Baxter Jernigan, who operates a garage at Double Springs, fired next, the load from his shot glancing from the Flatt roadster and striking Godsey in the back; Godsey was taken to the Millis Hospital near Baxter for treatment.
Neither of the men was seriously wounded.