Andrew Brown married Nancy White on 8th September 1870 in Carroll County, Georgia. When Andrew was murdered in 1873, they were parents of an infant. Nancy married secondly George Adam Alls on 14th August 1877 and had Tennessee Frances Alls 1878 & Mary Rosa Lee Alls 1883 .
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The Carroll County Times, June 13, 1873.
A Foul and Atrocious Murder...
We failed to say anything in our paper last week in regard to the horrible murder that was committed on the 31st ultimo, in this county, near Draketown, a little village in Haralson, from the fact that we had no correct information upon the subject and as there were various reports in circulation as to the parties concerned in this foul and atrocious deed. This is the main reason, that we have postponed until the present, a recital of the circumstances, connected with this _____an almost unparalleled homicide. The following are the facts in the case which we get from reliable parties.
Some three years ago, a difficulty occurred in this county (Haralson) between one Andrew Brown and Crayton Hicks, in which Brown was the successful combatant, having inflicted a severe wound upon the head of his antagonist during the melee. After this, the difficulty and unpleasantness, growning out of the fight, between the parties was amicably adjusted, and reconciliation seemed to have taken place. However on Saturday, the 31st of last month (May) these two men met in Drake Town, and late in the evening, Hicks rode up to Brown and asked him if he was ready to leave the place, to which enquiry he responded in the affirmative, and in a short time, in company with three other men, all related to the said Crayton Hicks, departed for their respective homes. When they arrived at the forks in the road where Hicks and his friends turned off, Hicks observed to Brown in a very abrupt and insulting manner, that this was the place where he had struck him with a stick upon a certain occasion, and he would like for him to try it again. Brown remonstrated with him by saying that old matter had been settled long ago, and he was opposed to having any further difficult abut it, whereupon, according to Hicks own confession, he let in upon the victim and literally cut him to pieces, inflicting upon his person, no less than forty odd wounds, any one of twenty seven of which would have proved fatal. Hicks fled to Alabama, where he was arrested in a few days after the commission of the crime....brought back to Carroll county, tried and committed to jail for safe keeping to await his doom at the October term of our Superior Court.
It is hoped if he had any accomplices in this wicked and cruel murder, that future developments may bring to light the evidences of their guilt, and that a speedy and just retribution may follow and pay the extreme penalty of law in such cases.
We are informed that Mr. Brown was a peaceable, quite inoffensive citizen, beloved by a large scope of friends and acquaintances who mourn their irreparable loss, and that he leaves a kind and devoted wife, with an infant at her breast. Oh! when will the violated, outraged law be appeased and foul murder cease to stalk abroad in the land? source: http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaharals/newspaper/abstract.htm
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The Carroll County Times, June 13, 1873.
A Foul and Atrocious Murder...
We failed to say anything in our paper last week in regard to the horrible murder that was committed on the 31st ultimo, in this county, near Draketown, a little village in Haralson, from the fact that we had no correct information upon the subject and as there were various reports in circulation as to the parties concerned in this foul and atrocious deed. This is the main reason, that we have postponed until the present, a recital of the circumstances, connected with this _____an almost unparalleled homicide. The following are the facts in the case which we get from reliable parties.
Some three years ago, a difficulty occurred in this county (Haralson) between one Andrew Brown and Crayton Hicks, in which Brown was the successful combatant, having inflicted a severe wound upon the head of his antagonist during the melee. After this, the difficulty and unpleasantness, growning out of the fight, between the parties was amicably adjusted, and reconciliation seemed to have taken place. However on Saturday, the 31st of last month (May) these two men met in Drake Town, and late in the evening, Hicks rode up to Brown and asked him if he was ready to leave the place, to which enquiry he responded in the affirmative, and in a short time, in company with three other men, all related to the said Crayton Hicks, departed for their respective homes. When they arrived at the forks in the road where Hicks and his friends turned off, Hicks observed to Brown in a very abrupt and insulting manner, that this was the place where he had struck him with a stick upon a certain occasion, and he would like for him to try it again. Brown remonstrated with him by saying that old matter had been settled long ago, and he was opposed to having any further difficult abut it, whereupon, according to Hicks own confession, he let in upon the victim and literally cut him to pieces, inflicting upon his person, no less than forty odd wounds, any one of twenty seven of which would have proved fatal. Hicks fled to Alabama, where he was arrested in a few days after the commission of the crime....brought back to Carroll county, tried and committed to jail for safe keeping to await his doom at the October term of our Superior Court.
It is hoped if he had any accomplices in this wicked and cruel murder, that future developments may bring to light the evidences of their guilt, and that a speedy and just retribution may follow and pay the extreme penalty of law in such cases.
We are informed that Mr. Brown was a peaceable, quite inoffensive citizen, beloved by a large scope of friends and acquaintances who mourn their irreparable loss, and that he leaves a kind and devoted wife, with an infant at her breast. Oh! when will the violated, outraged law be appeased and foul murder cease to stalk abroad in the land? source: http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaharals/newspaper/abstract.htm
Andrew Brown married Nancy White on 8th September 1870 in Carroll County, Georgia. When Andrew was murdered in 1873, they were parents of an infant. Nancy married secondly George Adam Alls on 14th August 1877 and had Tennessee Frances Alls 1878 & Mary Rosa Lee Alls 1883 .
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The Carroll County Times, June 13, 1873.
A Foul and Atrocious Murder...
We failed to say anything in our paper last week in regard to the horrible murder that was committed on the 31st ultimo, in this county, near Draketown, a little village in Haralson, from the fact that we had no correct information upon the subject and as there were various reports in circulation as to the parties concerned in this foul and atrocious deed. This is the main reason, that we have postponed until the present, a recital of the circumstances, connected with this _____an almost unparalleled homicide. The following are the facts in the case which we get from reliable parties.
Some three years ago, a difficulty occurred in this county (Haralson) between one Andrew Brown and Crayton Hicks, in which Brown was the successful combatant, having inflicted a severe wound upon the head of his antagonist during the melee. After this, the difficulty and unpleasantness, growning out of the fight, between the parties was amicably adjusted, and reconciliation seemed to have taken place. However on Saturday, the 31st of last month (May) these two men met in Drake Town, and late in the evening, Hicks rode up to Brown and asked him if he was ready to leave the place, to which enquiry he responded in the affirmative, and in a short time, in company with three other men, all related to the said Crayton Hicks, departed for their respective homes. When they arrived at the forks in the road where Hicks and his friends turned off, Hicks observed to Brown in a very abrupt and insulting manner, that this was the place where he had struck him with a stick upon a certain occasion, and he would like for him to try it again. Brown remonstrated with him by saying that old matter had been settled long ago, and he was opposed to having any further difficult abut it, whereupon, according to Hicks own confession, he let in upon the victim and literally cut him to pieces, inflicting upon his person, no less than forty odd wounds, any one of twenty seven of which would have proved fatal. Hicks fled to Alabama, where he was arrested in a few days after the commission of the crime....brought back to Carroll county, tried and committed to jail for safe keeping to await his doom at the October term of our Superior Court.
It is hoped if he had any accomplices in this wicked and cruel murder, that future developments may bring to light the evidences of their guilt, and that a speedy and just retribution may follow and pay the extreme penalty of law in such cases.
We are informed that Mr. Brown was a peaceable, quite inoffensive citizen, beloved by a large scope of friends and acquaintances who mourn their irreparable loss, and that he leaves a kind and devoted wife, with an infant at her breast. Oh! when will the violated, outraged law be appeased and foul murder cease to stalk abroad in the land? source: http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaharals/newspaper/abstract.htm
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The Carroll County Times, June 13, 1873.
A Foul and Atrocious Murder...
We failed to say anything in our paper last week in regard to the horrible murder that was committed on the 31st ultimo, in this county, near Draketown, a little village in Haralson, from the fact that we had no correct information upon the subject and as there were various reports in circulation as to the parties concerned in this foul and atrocious deed. This is the main reason, that we have postponed until the present, a recital of the circumstances, connected with this _____an almost unparalleled homicide. The following are the facts in the case which we get from reliable parties.
Some three years ago, a difficulty occurred in this county (Haralson) between one Andrew Brown and Crayton Hicks, in which Brown was the successful combatant, having inflicted a severe wound upon the head of his antagonist during the melee. After this, the difficulty and unpleasantness, growning out of the fight, between the parties was amicably adjusted, and reconciliation seemed to have taken place. However on Saturday, the 31st of last month (May) these two men met in Drake Town, and late in the evening, Hicks rode up to Brown and asked him if he was ready to leave the place, to which enquiry he responded in the affirmative, and in a short time, in company with three other men, all related to the said Crayton Hicks, departed for their respective homes. When they arrived at the forks in the road where Hicks and his friends turned off, Hicks observed to Brown in a very abrupt and insulting manner, that this was the place where he had struck him with a stick upon a certain occasion, and he would like for him to try it again. Brown remonstrated with him by saying that old matter had been settled long ago, and he was opposed to having any further difficult abut it, whereupon, according to Hicks own confession, he let in upon the victim and literally cut him to pieces, inflicting upon his person, no less than forty odd wounds, any one of twenty seven of which would have proved fatal. Hicks fled to Alabama, where he was arrested in a few days after the commission of the crime....brought back to Carroll county, tried and committed to jail for safe keeping to await his doom at the October term of our Superior Court.
It is hoped if he had any accomplices in this wicked and cruel murder, that future developments may bring to light the evidences of their guilt, and that a speedy and just retribution may follow and pay the extreme penalty of law in such cases.
We are informed that Mr. Brown was a peaceable, quite inoffensive citizen, beloved by a large scope of friends and acquaintances who mourn their irreparable loss, and that he leaves a kind and devoted wife, with an infant at her breast. Oh! when will the violated, outraged law be appeased and foul murder cease to stalk abroad in the land? source: http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaharals/newspaper/abstract.htm
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