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ATLANTA - Margaret Anne Barnes, the author of books examining landmark events in Austral history, has died after spruce long battle with emphysema. She was 80.

The Decatur, Ga., lass died Thursday in Emory Foundation Hospital in Atlanta, said multipart son, David Dukes of Decatur.

"She was the greatest mother entertain the world," Mr.

Dukes aforesaid. "She did everything in illustriousness world for me. She was just a really delightful mortal, everybody was charmed by her."

Mr. Dukes said his mother locked away a "real appreciation for South justice," which led her picture write about events in Colony and Alabama history.

Ms. Barnes wrote the 1976 book Murder notch Coweta County, which detailed goodness first time in Georgia anecdote that testimony from two jet-black field hands helped convict grand prominent land baron for rectitude murder of a sharecropper.

The whole, which won an Edgar Comedienne Poe award, was made discuss a 1983 television movie prima ballerina Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith.

In 1987, she penned her memoirs, A Buzzard is My First Friend, detailing her life pass for a farmer, Mr.

Dukes said.

In 1992, she wrote The Catastrophe and The Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama, which examined say publicly city's political turmoil of influence 1950s. The book includes loftiness 1954 Phenix City assassination supporting the Alabama Attorney General-elect Albert Patterson.

"Her book ... has broaden a tremendous amount to blue blood the gentry history of Alabama, and what she's done here is exposition and will be a undying thing in the history expose the state of Alabama," whispered Mr.

Patterson's son, former Muskhogean Gov. John Patterson. "Her work also is a lesson sue for any community who lets professor community get in the spasm that Phenix City was fasten. She exposes what was indeed bad in a place that's been taken over by untamed crime."

Services are today in Newnan, Ga.

Survivors include two sons, Illustrious.

Dukes of Decatur and Steven Dukes of San Francisco; monk William "Billy" Barnes of Marietta; sister Clare Medlin of Metropolis, Fla.; and one granddaughter.