[Subject]: "Mrs. Jesse Ernshaw," who lives on the Boulevard in Atlanta, is mentioned as a relative and inferred landlady of Joel Pritchett, a seventeen-year-old son of Marcellus Pritchett, deceased, who died in a tragic shooting accident in Villa Rica (Carroll County, Georgia) in 1898.
[Kinship, per external sources]: Jessie (Pritchett) Earnshaw is a first cousin of the deceased. She is the daughter of John Walter Pritchett, who is a brother of Joel's late father, Marcellus Pritchett.
[Reference]: Joel Pritchett in "Accidentally Shot Himself," /The Courant-American/, Thurs., 22 September 1898, page 1
[The article says, of the deceased]:
"He had been boarding with a relative in Atlanta, Mrs. Jesse Ernshaw, living on the Boulevard, and had gone down to Villa Rica, where his uncle, Mr. Frank Pritchett, lived, on Friday evening."
[EXTRACT]:
Name of Deceased: Joel Pritchett
Age at Death: 17 [est. birth year, 1881]
Date of Death (est.): Sat., 17 September 1898
Place of Death: Villa Rica [Carroll, Georgia]
Residence: Atlanta [Fulton, Georgia]
Father of Deceased: Marcellus Pritchett, deceased
Uncle of Deceased: Frank Pritchett (Villa Rica)
Uncle of Deceased: Joel T. Conyers (Stilesboro)
Uncle: Col. James B. Conyers (Cartersville) [ambiguous wording in source; could be uncle of deceased or paternal great-uncle, but is actually a maternal uncle, per external sources]
Sister of Deceased: Miss Rhea Pritchett
Brother of Deceased: Charles Pritchett (Raleigh, , North Carolina)
Relative and Landlady of Deceased: Mrs. Jesse Ernshaw (Atlanta)
Young Friends (present at death): Sammie Candler; a local boy named Windsor
Other Person: S. C. Candler (one of the party who met in Atlanta and traveled to Cartersville, accompanying the body from Villa Rica; uncertain whether the same as, or related to, young Sammie Candler
Description of Accident: The three boys had caught an opossum and were trying to trap it under "a large pot." During the scuffle, the gun may have caught on the pot and fired, striking Pritchett in the chest. The boy made it to the house, but died immediately afterwards.
Place of Funeral: ("residence of Judge A. W. Fite") [Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia]
Date of Funeral and Burial: Sunday [est. 18 September 1898]
Officiator: Rev. Dr. Headden (Rome, Floyd, Georgia); former pastor of the Baptist Church at Cartersville
Pallbearers: Tom Puckett, Watt Milner, Miller Gilreath, John Calhoun, Garnett, Greene
Place of Burial: "the family lot," Oak Hill Cemetery, ("here") [Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia]
[Source Citation]: Mrs. Jesse Ernshaw (re: Joel Pritchett, decd.) in "Accidentally Shot Himself," /The Courant-American/ (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia) 1889-1901, Thurs., 22 September 1898, page 1 (digital image 1), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054137/1898-09-22/ed-1/seq-1/print/image_554x817_from_2164,3817_to_4507,7268/ (clipping; full page accessed 25 November 2020).
"Jesse Ernshaw" for name (variant spelling, married surname); residence at time of event (on the Boulevard, Atlanta, September 1898); fact of kinship to deceased, stated; specific kinship can be determined through other sources; fact of cohabitation (boarding relationship) of "Jesse Ernshaw" and the deceased [her first cousin].
-----[Research aids]: other mutual relatives mentioned in source.
-----[External References]: Jessie (Pritchett) Earnshaw, daughter of John Walter Pritchett (who is the brother of the late Marcellus Pritchett mentioned in source).
-----[Other External Ref.]: Pritchett-Earnshaw marriage announcement, "The Free Press," (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia), 28 October 1880, page 3.
RELATED:
Pritchett-Earnshaw marriage announcement, "The Free Press," (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia), 28 October 1880, page 3.
"Hymeneal"
"Married at the residence of the bride's grand-father, Mr. R. F. Daniel, of Canton, by Rev. J. A. McMurray, Mr. B. E. Earnshaw, of the Concord Factory, to Miss Jessie Pritchett, daughter of Col. J. W. Pritchett. May their pathway through life be one of sunshine and no dark days come to mar their happiness."
These are notes from research on a Pritchett family of Cartersville, Georgia.
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