Death of Mrs. Eba Lawson of Murray County, Georgia

Mrs. Eba Lawson of Eton, Murray County, Georgia, Dies on Train at Chattanooga, 1911

(Article in The Dalton Argus)

Mrs. Eba Lawson, of Eton [Murray, Georgia], who suffered from tuberculosis, was on her way to Texas for her health, when she died on the train. The death was discovered at Chattanooga. Mrs. Lawson was traveling with her two small children. The children were taken in charge by Mrs. Marshall, the police matron, and placed in the Vine Street orphanage, thence sent back to Dalton, where a Mrs. Evans kept them until Mr. Lawson arrived. Meanwhile, authorities had located Mrs. Lawson and notified him of his wife's death. The body was sent to Sharp's in Chattanooga, and was returned to Dalton.

Article

[Source]: Lawson in "Woman Dies on Way to Chattanooga," The Dalton Argus (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 18??-????, 13 July 1911, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia. https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053937/1911-07-13/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_547x817_from_927,342_to_3470,4137/  (29 January 2022).

Genealogy Reference: Mr. Erbie or Erby Lawson, of Polk County, Tennessee, later of Eton, Murray County, Georgia, and wife, Flora.

Census: Polk County, Tennessee, 1880

Census: Murray County, Georgia, 1900

Later, Erby Lawson, widower, is found with his children in Bryan County, Oklahoma.

Death of Will Wilbanks, of Eton, Murray County, Georgia

Will Wilbanks, son of Cas Wilbanks and a cousin of Sheriff Wilbanks, was a popular young man of Eton, Murray County, Georgia. He played baseball for the home team. In the summer of 1909, while playing at Fairmount, he was struck hard by a baseball, causing a wound which wouldn't heal. Over the next several weeks, the injury worsened and blood poisoning set in. Will Wilbanks died of blood poisoning, Tuesday, September 7, at the age of twenty-two. His story appears on the front page of The Dalton Argus, September 16, 1909.

Note: Fairmount is in nearby Gordon County, Georgia.

[Source]: Will Wilbanks in "Eton Boy Dies From Blood Poison," The Dalton Argus (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 18??-????, 16 September 1909, page 7 (digital image 7), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia. 

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 (29 January 2022).