Columbus Daily Enquirer, Georgia
31 March 1922
ATLANTA WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND
Mrs. Mary Lon* Vinson Shoots and Kills Dr. W. V. Vinson In the Latter's Office On Marietta Street.
ATLANTA, Mar 30 -- Mrs. Cora Lou* Vinson, fourty four, whom a lunacy commission found sane Tuesday when her daughter tried to place her in an asylum; shot and killed her husband, Dr. W. V. Vinson, 68 [65?], in his office on Marietta street here late today.
The shooting, according to the police was a climax to a series of law suits over property between the two who had been separated for several years. Dr. Vinson recently filed suit for divorce, claiming his wife had threatened his life, and she had charged inhumane treatment in a counter petition. Each had been married before.
Mrs. Vinson was held in the county jail without bond on a charge of murder. She shot the physician before he knew she was in the office, the police were told by G. L. Edwards, clerk in a drug store. She had gone to the office in a taxicab and was arrested by two county policemen as she got into the cab to leave.
"I did not intend to kill him, but when I thought about how he had treated me I just shot him," the policemen said she told them when they took her into custody and later they said she declared Dr. Vinson had chided her with being sickly and threatened to kill her unless she deeded some property over to him.
Dr. Vinson was sueing [sic] his wife to recover property which he claimed to have deeded to her. Their divorce was to have come up next Monday.
[The names were typed as they were in the article. A quick check of census records suggests the correct name is Cora Lou.]
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Obituary: Mrs. Georgia A. Clark (1858)
Macon Weekly Telegraph, Georgia
8 June 1858
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OBITUARY.
"The wisest men are glad to die; no fear Of death can touch a true philosopher. Death sets the soul at liberty to fly, Which whilst imprisoned in the body here It cannot learn."
Departed this life in this city, Saturday, June 5th, 1858, Mrs. GEORGIA A. CLARK, consort of Mr. S. P. Clark, and daughter of the late John P. and Mrs. R. A. Evans, in the 23d year of her age.
Through the mercy of God she has been a sufferer from a fell disease but for a short period. But a few months back she was in the full enjoyment of life, with bright hopes for a brighter future; but she was soon brought to such circumstances as enabled her to view this world and the next aright, and we have ample reason to believe that the result of her consideration was -- God chosen for her portion and Heaven for her home. Through Him she was reconciled, and calmly and tranquilly walked through the dark valley, and now rests in the well chosen home. As a companion and a mother she was loving, kind and affectionate, and faithful in the discharge of her duties -- a dutiful and obedient child -- affectionate and dear as a sister -- amiable and inoffensive in disposition, possessing many christian attributes, and was ever ready and willing to administer to the wants of the afflicted and needy. She was truly and well beloved by all her associates. But she is gone, all earthly ties severed, and she has been torn from us by the relentless hand of death. Calm and serene as a babe in sleep, her immortal spirit went its way to the happy home, we trust. We have consigned her body to its last resting place -- but her memory, ever dear, can never slumber.
She leaves an affectionate husband and an infant boy, as well as numerous relatives and friends to mourn their loss.
Our afflictions are many and heavy, but we will not murmur, for the decrees of Heaven are just, and though uncomprehensible [sic] to us week [sic] creatures, are infinitely wise.
"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." This should be sufficient to bear up the sinking spirit of the afflicted, and induce them to place their trust in the blessed Redeemer, who died that through him we might have eternal life. Let us feel, then, that this dispensation of Providence is imposed upon us to impress our minds with the mutability of human affairs, and turn out thoughts to God and Eternity, and incite us to strive to live that we shall all meet the loved ones that have gone before, at the heaven of eternal rest and happiness where death and affliction have no part.
8 June 1858
(Viewed online at GenealogyBank.)
OBITUARY.
"The wisest men are glad to die; no fear Of death can touch a true philosopher. Death sets the soul at liberty to fly, Which whilst imprisoned in the body here It cannot learn."
Departed this life in this city, Saturday, June 5th, 1858, Mrs. GEORGIA A. CLARK, consort of Mr. S. P. Clark, and daughter of the late John P. and Mrs. R. A. Evans, in the 23d year of her age.
Through the mercy of God she has been a sufferer from a fell disease but for a short period. But a few months back she was in the full enjoyment of life, with bright hopes for a brighter future; but she was soon brought to such circumstances as enabled her to view this world and the next aright, and we have ample reason to believe that the result of her consideration was -- God chosen for her portion and Heaven for her home. Through Him she was reconciled, and calmly and tranquilly walked through the dark valley, and now rests in the well chosen home. As a companion and a mother she was loving, kind and affectionate, and faithful in the discharge of her duties -- a dutiful and obedient child -- affectionate and dear as a sister -- amiable and inoffensive in disposition, possessing many christian attributes, and was ever ready and willing to administer to the wants of the afflicted and needy. She was truly and well beloved by all her associates. But she is gone, all earthly ties severed, and she has been torn from us by the relentless hand of death. Calm and serene as a babe in sleep, her immortal spirit went its way to the happy home, we trust. We have consigned her body to its last resting place -- but her memory, ever dear, can never slumber.
She leaves an affectionate husband and an infant boy, as well as numerous relatives and friends to mourn their loss.
Our afflictions are many and heavy, but we will not murmur, for the decrees of Heaven are just, and though uncomprehensible [sic] to us week [sic] creatures, are infinitely wise.
"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." This should be sufficient to bear up the sinking spirit of the afflicted, and induce them to place their trust in the blessed Redeemer, who died that through him we might have eternal life. Let us feel, then, that this dispensation of Providence is imposed upon us to impress our minds with the mutability of human affairs, and turn out thoughts to God and Eternity, and incite us to strive to live that we shall all meet the loved ones that have gone before, at the heaven of eternal rest and happiness where death and affliction have no part.
A BROTHER.
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