1843: John Lawson killed Obediah Culver & Enoch Jackson; Hancock Co. GA.
(1) A Bloody Tragedy.-A letter received in this city from Sparta, Hancock County, says-…..“Yesterday, or rather the evening previous, John Lawson killed Obediah Culver and Enoch Jackson. They went to Lawson’s house, and entered, and one of them struck him with a stick. Lawson fled from the house, but as he went out caught up his double barreled gun; they pursued him, and about one hundred yards from his house, one of them fired a pistol at him; he wheeled, fired both barrels, simultaneously, and killed both in their tracks. He then sent for a Magistrate and gave himself up, and sent for a lawyer to advise him on the inquest. He was placed under bonds of $1000 for his appearance at Court, but if the above be a true statement of the circumstances, he will certainly go clear.”
Jackson, we understand, married Lawson’s sister, and out of this marriage grew the difficulty between them.
-Sav. Georgia, 20th inst.
Source: Federal Union, Milledgeville, Georgia, November 28, 1843; Pg. 3, Column 2
NOTE: Mary Jane Lawson md. Enoch Jackson, 17 Feb. 1842, Hancock Co.GA.
(2) GEORGIA, Hancock County.
Clerk’s Office-Court of Ordinary.
WHEREAS Isaac Jackson has applied to me for letters of administration on the estate of Enoch Jackson, late of said county, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 18th day of November, 1843.
HENRY ROGERS, c.c.o.
Source: Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, Georgia, Tuesday, November 28, 1843; Pg. 4, Column 6