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Title: A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Battey, George Magruder, 1887-1965
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Publisher: Atlanta, Webb and Vary Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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past him. I felt ascalm and cool, says he, as if I hadbeen making a law speech. And helooked just as he said he felt. There came near being a serious col-lision at Cedar Bluff between Capt.Williamsons special and the regularpassenger, on which Capt. Jackson andMr. Calhoun arrived. Had the specialhad a few minutes more time when itpulled out from the sheriff there wouldhave been a smashup. About an hour before the fight tookplace Capt. Williamson was asked byme if he felt any apprehension of whatwas coming. He said: I dont anymore mind going into this fight than Ido going to breakfast. I have no fearof death and I attribute this to my phi-losophy. A man must eventually dieanyway, and to die now is only tohasten matters a few years. When the duel was over, it was ahappy party that boarded the trainand made the champagne corks pop.Mr. Calhoun called Capt. WilliamsonJohn, and Capt. Williamson called 336 A History of Rome and Floyd County pl&r /».- i^!:-A!KaBijSVi«.«&«?«»^»^
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ROME DWELLINGS OF HIGH ALTITUDE AND LOW 1—Mrs. C. S. Sparks. 2—Mrs. E. L. West. 3—Col. and Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson (RioVista, on the Etowah). 4—Barry Wright. 5—John C. Glover. 6—Hugh B. Parks. 7—RichardA. Denny (formerly Capt. John J. Seay and Thos. W. Alexander). 8—Mrs. Henry J. Hine-9—Judge and Mrs. Waller T. TurnbuU (Saracinesca, Tubbs Mountain). 10—W. ColemanBryan (J. Park Bowie). 11—J. E. S. Angle (John Montgomery). Anecdotes and Reminiscences 337 him Pat, and both were on the mostfriendly terms. The way he dodged around, jumpingfrom car to car, perplexed the old sher-iff as bad as the harlequin in Humpty-Dumpty did Goody Two-Shoes. They tried to make the old Cherokeesheriff believe the special train car-ried the mail and that he would behung for interfering with the mails,but it was no go. Capt. Jackson, in discussing the duelafter it was over, said: My manshowed as noble courage as was everwitnessed on the field, and he had aman of true grit in front of hi

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