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Subject: Mcknight.George.W.P.1915.Boyd.OBIT


George W P McKnight July 26, 1915 
Boyd County KyArchives Obituaries

Morning Irontonian,  Ironton, OH, July 27, 1915
Ironton News
Ironton, Ohio 
July 27,1915
While returning from Cole Grove where he had been calling on Miss Tillie Rowe, 
daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Solomon Rowe, George McKnight, who resides back of 
Ashland, was assaulted and so badly beaten up that he died Monday morning, at 
the King's Daughters Hospital in Ashland without ever having regained 
consciousness and it is doubted if his assailants will ever be apprehended 
although police are working on the case. There seems to be little if anything 
in the way of a clue, but the police hope to bring the guilty parties to 
justice. McKnight was found at about midnight on the Ashland ferry grade, and 
the police, thinking him drunk, carried him in the patrol to the city prison 
where he remained until five o'clock Sunday evening before attentiion was paid 
to him. Then efforts to arouse him failed and a physician was summoned. The 
physician saw that the young man's condition was very serious and rushed him 
to the hospital where death occurred early Monday morning. Miss Rowe stated 
that McKnight had been drinking before he called on her Saturday night.


Submitted by: Carolyn Hines Smith
rogncarol@pbtcomm.net



Additional Comments:
Son of George W P McKnight Sr. and Nancy Ann McIntire. Death was ruled a 
murder, cause of death was a fractured skull

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