Aug 17, 1949
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

ATLANTA, Aug. 16--Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," died today at Grady Hospital of injuries received when she was struck down by a speeding automobile on Peachtree Street last Thursday.

Miss Mitchell was struck as she and her husband, John R. Marsh, were crossing Peachtree at Thirteenth Street on the way to a neighborhood movie.

Besides her husband Miss Mitchell leaves a brother, Stephens Mitchell, and two nephews, Eugene and Joseph Mitchell of Atlanta.

Miss Mitchell in private life was Mrs. John R. Marsh, wife of the retired advertising manager of the Georgia Power Company. She was born in Atlanta soon after the turn of the century, the daughter of a lawyer. The family was descended from the Huguenot settlers of South Carolina.

Her father, the late Eugene M. Mitchell, was an attorney and former president of the Atlanta Bar Association, former president of the Atlanta Historical Society and a recognized authority on Atlanta and Georgia history.

Her mother was the late Maybelle Stephens Mitchell. She had one brother, Stephens Mitchell, also an attorney, editor of the Atlanta Historical Society Bulletin, former president of the Atlanta Bar Association and of the Atlanta Lawyers Club. Her family has been living in or near Atlanta since before the town originated.

She attended the Atlanta public schools, was graduated from Washington Seminary, an Atlanta preparatory school, and attended Smith College at Northampton, Mass., for about a year, leaving because of the death of her mother. She made her society debut in Atlanta.

Miss Mitchell became a member of the staff of The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine in 1922 and worked there until 1926, writing under the name of Peggy Mitchell. She was forced to abandon this position, however, because of an injured ankle. It was then that she began writing her famous novel, "Gone With the Wind." She had been married the year before.

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell born in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 8, 1900.

1910 Atlanta, Fulton, GA
SELF Eugene M Mitchell M 43y Georgia
WIFE Maybelle Mitchell F 37y Georgia
SON Stephen Mitchell M 14y Georgia
DAU Margaret Mitchell F 9y Georgia

1940 Ward 5, Atlanta City, Fulton, GA
John R Marsh 44 KY
Margaret M Marsh 39 GA

1940 Ward 5, Atlanta City, Fulton, GA
Head Steven (Stephens Alexander) Mitchell M 44 Georgia 14 Jan 1896-May 1983 Fulton County
Wife Carolyn Mitchell F 38 Georgia
Son Eugene Mitchell M 8 Georgia
Son Joseph R Mitchell M 5 Georgia
Father Eugene M Mitchell M 74 Georgia died 17 June 1944 Fulton County
Mother-in-law Joseph Reynolds F 74 Georgia

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