Ginny Dunaway Young (#47405343) provided the following article taken from the 'Columbus Daily Enquirer', 14 Jun 1893 edition, regarding the death of Major William C. Dawson.
(Pre-dates 1922, no copyright infringement.)
"The Eufaula Times, in announcing the sudden death of Major William C. Dawson at his residence on Monday morning, says: Major Dawson has been a prominent figure in the vicinity of Glennville since long before the war. His family was one among several that gave that happy village of the plains a reputation throughout several States for intelligence and refinement and large hearted hospitality. He has been a resident of Eufaula for about ten years, and had a great many friends. He was quite old, something like seventy-five years, and a man who had enjoyed perfect health and unusual robustness until the day his son, the noble Colbert Dawson, met that horrible death in the fair grounds at Columbus. That event so shocked and grieved him that his powerful constitution gave way under the continuous sorrow of it. His death was quite unexpected. He was down in town Sunday afternoon and a little over twelve hours after was a corpse. Besides Mrs. Graves, he had two other children, Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Howard, and a number of grand children. His remains were carried to Glennville for interment."
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Note: Transcribed as published.
*Middle name & POB provided by Robert Daniell.
(Pre-dates 1922, no copyright infringement.)
"The Eufaula Times, in announcing the sudden death of Major William C. Dawson at his residence on Monday morning, says: Major Dawson has been a prominent figure in the vicinity of Glennville since long before the war. His family was one among several that gave that happy village of the plains a reputation throughout several States for intelligence and refinement and large hearted hospitality. He has been a resident of Eufaula for about ten years, and had a great many friends. He was quite old, something like seventy-five years, and a man who had enjoyed perfect health and unusual robustness until the day his son, the noble Colbert Dawson, met that horrible death in the fair grounds at Columbus. That event so shocked and grieved him that his powerful constitution gave way under the continuous sorrow of it. His death was quite unexpected. He was down in town Sunday afternoon and a little over twelve hours after was a corpse. Besides Mrs. Graves, he had two other children, Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Howard, and a number of grand children. His remains were carried to Glennville for interment."
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Note: Transcribed as published.
*Middle name & POB provided by Robert Daniell.
Ginny Dunaway Young (#47405343) provided the following article taken from the 'Columbus Daily Enquirer', 14 Jun 1893 edition, regarding the death of Major William C. Dawson.
(Pre-dates 1922, no copyright infringement.)
"The Eufaula Times, in announcing the sudden death of Major William C. Dawson at his residence on Monday morning, says: Major Dawson has been a prominent figure in the vicinity of Glennville since long before the war. His family was one among several that gave that happy village of the plains a reputation throughout several States for intelligence and refinement and large hearted hospitality. He has been a resident of Eufaula for about ten years, and had a great many friends. He was quite old, something like seventy-five years, and a man who had enjoyed perfect health and unusual robustness until the day his son, the noble Colbert Dawson, met that horrible death in the fair grounds at Columbus. That event so shocked and grieved him that his powerful constitution gave way under the continuous sorrow of it. His death was quite unexpected. He was down in town Sunday afternoon and a little over twelve hours after was a corpse. Besides Mrs. Graves, he had two other children, Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Howard, and a number of grand children. His remains were carried to Glennville for interment."
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Note: Transcribed as published.
*Middle name & POB provided by Robert Daniell.
(Pre-dates 1922, no copyright infringement.)
"The Eufaula Times, in announcing the sudden death of Major William C. Dawson at his residence on Monday morning, says: Major Dawson has been a prominent figure in the vicinity of Glennville since long before the war. His family was one among several that gave that happy village of the plains a reputation throughout several States for intelligence and refinement and large hearted hospitality. He has been a resident of Eufaula for about ten years, and had a great many friends. He was quite old, something like seventy-five years, and a man who had enjoyed perfect health and unusual robustness until the day his son, the noble Colbert Dawson, met that horrible death in the fair grounds at Columbus. That event so shocked and grieved him that his powerful constitution gave way under the continuous sorrow of it. His death was quite unexpected. He was down in town Sunday afternoon and a little over twelve hours after was a corpse. Besides Mrs. Graves, he had two other children, Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Howard, and a number of grand children. His remains were carried to Glennville for interment."
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Note: Transcribed as published.
*Middle name & POB provided by Robert Daniell.
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