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1844 Mar 25 Miss Demois Killed
1868 May 13 W. R. Meadows Killed at his Home
1868 May W. R. Meadows Murdered
1868 Aug 26 Pratt - Lewis Duel
1871 Jun 24 J. E. Ferguson Dies from Cut Received in Encounter with Dr. J. F. Gladney and A. M. Simmons
1871 Aug 05 Arrington Kills Minton
1876 Dec 22 S. B. Blackburn Suicide
1888 Nov 30 Child of Peyton Smith Dies of Serious Burns
1970 May 17 Watson Golden Anniversary

1877 Murder

On Friday evening, just after dark, two unknown men entered the cabin of Seaborn Love, a colored man, living on the place of Mr. Wamble, about three miles from town, and shot Love three times, from the effects of which he died in a short time. A negro girl in the house at the time was also shot in the hip; the wound, however, is not considered dangerous. Five shots in all were fired, and the parties decamped without any clue to their identity. The cause of the shooting is involved in mystery. For, although Love was justly regarded as a very bad man, it is not known that he had any enemy who would be likely to resort to that mode of redress. It is believed by m any of our citizens that he fired the town when it was burned last December; but the evidence was hardly sufficient to have taken his life, and had that been the cause of his being killed it would have taken place long ago.

Such acts are to be greatly deprecated, for no matter how bad a man is, he is entitled to the protection of the law.