Funeral services were held Sunday in Newnan for author Margaret Anne Barnes. The son of the 80-year-old Barnes said she died Thursday evening at Emory Hospital in Atlanta after a long battle with emphysema. Barnes wrote several books detailing landmark events in Southern history. Her 1976 book “Murder in Coweta County” won the Edgar Allen Poe award and later was made into a TV-movie.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Author Margaret Anne Barnes dies
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Edgar Treiguts
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10/15/2007 09:15:00 AM
Labels: author, Emory Hosptial, Margaret Anne Barnes, Murder in Coweta County
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