{"id":2092,"date":"2015-04-12T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2015-04-12T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:34:02","slug":"the-defuniak-herald-march-26-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2015\/04\/the-defuniak-herald-march-26-1925\/","title":{"rendered":"The DeFuniak Herald &#8211; March 26, 1925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 11.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">Eugene<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Hightower<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for 40 yrs a mail clerk on the Central of Georgia Railway, com<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">mitted suicide on Friday, Mar 13<\/span><sup style=\"bottom: 1ex;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">at Albany, Ga.\u00a0 A Negro by the name of Potts was the\u00a0<\/span>only eye witness to the tragedy, who stated that Hightower made a dive under the driving\u00a0wheels of the moving locomotive. Eugene was engaged to be married to Mrs Carrie Thomas of\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">Florala, the wedding date set for March 19<\/span><sup style=\"bottom: 1ex;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #111111;\">.\u00a0 Funeral services were held at his old home\u00a0<\/span>at Blakely, Ga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333; background: white;\">[Contributed by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene\u00a0Hightower\u00a0for 40 yrs a mail clerk on the Central of Georgia Railway, committed suicide on Friday, Mar 13th\u00a0at Albany, Ga.\u00a0 A Negro by the name of Potts was the\u00a0only eye witness to the tragedy, who stated that Hightower made a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2015\/04\/the-defuniak-herald-march-26-1925\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,10,14],"tags":[840,1933,1934],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1925-03-march","category-deaths","category-herald","tag-hightower","tag-potts","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","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=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}