Here is an article about William Stevenson's demise. I've been researching Lyon Co, KS, Civil War soldiers and think this is the right person. I would like you to add the article but if you don't feel it is okay, that's fine. Thanks. Becky
Eleventh Regiment
Kansas Volunteers Cavalry, Company C
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The Emporia Weekly News, (Emporia, Kansas), 25 Apr 1873, Fri, First Edition
AN OLD CITIZEN OF LYON COUNTY MURDERED
The following notice of the death of a former citizen of
Lyon County, escaped our notice until this week. We read it a week or two ago, but did not pay particular attention to it until it was copied into a Southwestern Kansas paper. Mr. Forest Stevenson was for many years a resident of this county, living at Forest Hill. His untimely death will be regretted by his many acquaintances in this county:
We are pained to learn that William Stevenson, four years a resident of Oswego, and C. Smith also a former resident
of this place and at one time deputy city marshal, both of whom have been for several months past working in the Joplin, Mo., lead mines, got into a heated dispute a week ago last Saturday at Lone Elm mining camp. Stevenson struck Smith with his fist, whereupon Smith retaliated by hitting Stevenson on the back of the head with a stone, fracturing his skull, from which effects death ensued the
following Wednesday. Stevenson was forty years of age, and leaves a wife and several children. Smith was taken to the Carthage jail for safe keeping where he awaits trial.--Oswego, Ind.
Eleventh Regiment
Kansas Volunteers Cavalry, Company C
******************************************************
The Emporia Weekly News, (Emporia, Kansas), 25 Apr 1873, Fri, First Edition
AN OLD CITIZEN OF LYON COUNTY MURDERED
The following notice of the death of a former citizen of
Lyon County, escaped our notice until this week. We read it a week or two ago, but did not pay particular attention to it until it was copied into a Southwestern Kansas paper. Mr. Forest Stevenson was for many years a resident of this county, living at Forest Hill. His untimely death will be regretted by his many acquaintances in this county:
We are pained to learn that William Stevenson, four years a resident of Oswego, and C. Smith also a former resident
of this place and at one time deputy city marshal, both of whom have been for several months past working in the Joplin, Mo., lead mines, got into a heated dispute a week ago last Saturday at Lone Elm mining camp. Stevenson struck Smith with his fist, whereupon Smith retaliated by hitting Stevenson on the back of the head with a stone, fracturing his skull, from which effects death ensued the
following Wednesday. Stevenson was forty years of age, and leaves a wife and several children. Smith was taken to the Carthage jail for safe keeping where he awaits trial.--Oswego, Ind.
Here is an article about William Stevenson's demise. I've been researching Lyon Co, KS, Civil War soldiers and think this is the right person. I would like you to add the article but if you don't feel it is okay, that's fine. Thanks. Becky
Eleventh Regiment
Kansas Volunteers Cavalry, Company C
******************************************************
The Emporia Weekly News, (Emporia, Kansas), 25 Apr 1873, Fri, First Edition
AN OLD CITIZEN OF LYON COUNTY MURDERED
The following notice of the death of a former citizen of
Lyon County, escaped our notice until this week. We read it a week or two ago, but did not pay particular attention to it until it was copied into a Southwestern Kansas paper. Mr. Forest Stevenson was for many years a resident of this county, living at Forest Hill. His untimely death will be regretted by his many acquaintances in this county:
We are pained to learn that William Stevenson, four years a resident of Oswego, and C. Smith also a former resident
of this place and at one time deputy city marshal, both of whom have been for several months past working in the Joplin, Mo., lead mines, got into a heated dispute a week ago last Saturday at Lone Elm mining camp. Stevenson struck Smith with his fist, whereupon Smith retaliated by hitting Stevenson on the back of the head with a stone, fracturing his skull, from which effects death ensued the
following Wednesday. Stevenson was forty years of age, and leaves a wife and several children. Smith was taken to the Carthage jail for safe keeping where he awaits trial.--Oswego, Ind.
Eleventh Regiment
Kansas Volunteers Cavalry, Company C
******************************************************
The Emporia Weekly News, (Emporia, Kansas), 25 Apr 1873, Fri, First Edition
AN OLD CITIZEN OF LYON COUNTY MURDERED
The following notice of the death of a former citizen of
Lyon County, escaped our notice until this week. We read it a week or two ago, but did not pay particular attention to it until it was copied into a Southwestern Kansas paper. Mr. Forest Stevenson was for many years a resident of this county, living at Forest Hill. His untimely death will be regretted by his many acquaintances in this county:
We are pained to learn that William Stevenson, four years a resident of Oswego, and C. Smith also a former resident
of this place and at one time deputy city marshal, both of whom have been for several months past working in the Joplin, Mo., lead mines, got into a heated dispute a week ago last Saturday at Lone Elm mining camp. Stevenson struck Smith with his fist, whereupon Smith retaliated by hitting Stevenson on the back of the head with a stone, fracturing his skull, from which effects death ensued the
following Wednesday. Stevenson was forty years of age, and leaves a wife and several children. Smith was taken to the Carthage jail for safe keeping where he awaits trial.--Oswego, Ind.
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