Ed Petty Shot & Killed Jim Huffman - 1920

It is always interesting to read about a relative who made the newspapers.  Sometimes it gives you certain bragging rights or claim to fame  and sometimes not.

This news article is about Ed Petty of Murray County, Georgia.  I am almost certain that my siblings and our first cousin Pettys are related to all the Pettys of Murray County, around 1920s.  According to my genealogy index file there were only two Ed Pettys in 1920.  Edmund Petty lived in Texas, which of course we can scratch him and the other one is Edward Harland Petty, born 1910 in Murray County, his grandfather was brother to our great grandfather Daniel Webster (1843-1913).  However,  that would put Edward Harland Petty age 10, killing a man and stealing whiskey.  I don’t think so.

So who are parents of Ed Petty?  I don’t know yet.  I am not sure if any one wants to claim him.

From the Chatsworth Times, Thursday, August 25, 1920

PETTY KILLS HUFFMAN IN ROW OVER WHISKY

Tragedy Occurs at Still Near Ball Ground Church  Petty Sill at Large.

Ed Petty shot and killed Jim Huffman at a still one mile north of the Ball Ground  church and a quarter from the homes of the two parties Wednesday morning between 10 and 11 o’clock.

There were three or four eye witnesses to the tragedy, and as far as can be learned at this time the shooting was a result of a quarrel between the men over accusation by Huffman that Petty  had stolen a quantity of liquor from Huffman.  It is said that Huffman, armed with a mash stick, was threatening to beat Petty’s brains out when the latter pulled his pistol and shot Huffman.  He died thirty minutes later.

Sheriff B.H. Wilbanks went to the scene of the killing Wednesday afternoon.  At the time of going to press had not yet apprehended.

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Before the play started several people sat behind us. One lady on a walker asked us could she park her walker “here” and we said go ahead. She was very talkative to the people she came with and some other people that walked by. She never met a stranger. Some things she said, pointing out people she knew, that she was a Woodstock native. At intermission I turned around and asked her was she a Woodstock native. If she said yes I was going to “name drop” some relatives in the area, she would probably know them. She happily said she lives in Canton and is from Marietta. We talked about the play and this and that. Then we ran out of trying to think of things to talk about and quit and I turned around. She kept on talking of course, to her friends she was sitting with. I heard her say “They got a restraining order against me.”

I wanted to turn around and ask her “What for?” but decided against it.

Not that it matters, but I started counting actors the play involved – they kept moving getting me confused and starting over, but I think they had 14 to 16, maybe less, because some played duel rolls and five or six musicians, again some played more than one instrument, and some of the musicians had dancing rolls, which also fumbled up my counting.

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