How did your ancestors die? Before 1920, most people didn\'t live to a ripe old age.
You may even find one of your relatives!.
They are quoted verbatim in this book, and will make your hair stand on end.
Georgia\'s contemporary newspapers reported their deaths in graphic, Gruesome detail. 500 Horrible Ways to Die in Georgia introduces you to over five hundred Southerners who met untimely ends in tragic, and sometimes bizarre, ways.
With all this, plus unregulated firearms, narcotics, and alcohol, no wonder so many people died unexpected, traumatic deaths.
They had to adjust to rapid technological development brought by the Industrial Revolution-stagecoaches gave way to steamboats, railroads, and automobiles; candles to kerosene lamps, gaslights, and electricity.
Our ancestors had to contend with hazards like severe weather, obstinate farm animals, fires, machinery, explosives-life was not easy.
Deadly diseases like typhoid and tuberculosis were common; infections from injuries could be fatal, and medical care was minimal.
Or they might have blown their brains out with a pistol, taken poison, or drowned.
Your ancestors might have been struck by lightning, blown to bits in a steamboat explosion, run over by a train, burned to death, murdered, or cut in half by a sawmill.
In fact, some died suddenly, in unusual Ways and odd places.
And many didn\'t die in bed.
How did your ancestors die? Before 1920, most people didn\'t live to a ripe old age
