Today's story is a sad one. Of course, when there is a death, it is always sad. However, this one seems to be a case of domestic violence that left a young girl (a baby, really) without her parents.
Allen Thomas Brantley was 32 years old and lived in Dublin, Georgia when he died. He was married to Dawn Elizabeth Fordham and they had a little girl. He was a veteran of the Air Force and a former police officer. He was a police officer in both Soperton and Dublin for 12 years. He had just left the force a year earlier. At the time of his death, he was a sales rep for an industrial contracting company (or as the newspaper article terms it, "a local machine and tool shop) in Dublin.
Dawn worked at a Dublin furniture store.
From the outside looking in, they were just a normal couple, working hard to provide for their family.
During the early morning hours of Sunday, April 6, 1997, Allen shot and killed his wife, Dawn. He called his sister to come get his child. Then he killed himself.
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| Newspapers.com, The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Monday, April 07, 1997, Page 3 |
Both Allen and Dawn were buried on the same day in separate cemeteries. However, they were mentioned in each other's obituaries.
This is the only article I found about the incident, so I do not know if anyone ever knew what happened that night to drive Allen to do this. I share these stories, not to revel in the thriller aspect; I share them to show that our ancestors and outlying family are/were just people, with happiness, depression, joy, trauma, love, and anger during their lives.
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