{"id":1676,"date":"2012-07-26T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltoncountyheritage.org\/wp\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2023-01-10T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:41:27","slug":"the-defuniak-herald-march-18-1926-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-march-18-1926-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"The DeFuniak Herald &#8211; March 18, 1926 &#8211; Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 18, 1926:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesse <strong>Holland<\/strong> fires two shots at daughter &amp; blows own head off with shotgun! A Tragic happening occurred Friday morning at 8 miles west of Milton, when Jesse <strong>Holland<\/strong>, a farmer of that section, killed his 19 yr daughter, <strong>Ola<\/strong>, firing two shots at her from a single-barrel shotgun. The Milton Gazette of last Friday says: &#8221;Mr Jesse Holland was a son of Jim <strong>Holland<\/strong>, who moved from here to south Florida abt 2 yrs ago. He was 46 yrs old, and had been married for abt 25 yrs to Ora, daughter of Mr &amp; Mrs Will <strong>Giddens<\/strong>.\u00a0 The family consisted of the father and mother and 10 children.\u00a0The oldest being a boy of 21 who works on the Escambia bridge.\u00a0The young man and his mother got up at 3:30 to eat breakfast before going to work. About 5:00 the daughter got up and went out into the yard. Father arose and said he was going to feed the horses.\u00a0In a moment or two shots were heard, wife and mother ran outside just in time to see father shoot daughter shattering her left arm, she screamed &#8221;Oh! Mamma&#8221;, father reloaded and shot her the second time in right shoulder an heart region. Coroner&#8217;s Jury rendered verdict that Ola <strong>Holland<\/strong> came to her death by gunshot wounds\u00a0inflcted\u00a0by her father &amp; Jesse <strong>Holland<\/strong> came to his death by self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:13px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Contributed by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, 1926: Jesse Holland fires two shots at daughter &amp; blows own head off with shotgun! A Tragic happening occurred Friday morning at 8 miles west of Milton, when Jesse Holland, a farmer of that section, killed his 19 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-march-18-1926-obituary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,10],"tags":[957],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1926-03-march","category-deaths","tag-jesse-holland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}