Pvt Co B 10th MO Infantry C.S.A.
Proud Confederate Soldier
"October 31,-- Captain John R. Boreing a prominent and highly respectable citizen, and leading business man of Magnolia, Columbia County, Ark., was struck on the head with a hammer by some unknown party on the night of the 16th inst and died from the effects of the wound on the 24th inst. The deceased was reared in Laurel county, Kentucky, and is a brother of Judge Vincent Boreing, of London, and the Rev. Amon Boreing, of Covington, Kentucky. he went from here to Pike's Peak when a young man and volunteered in the Confederate Army from the state of Missouri, and served with the rank of Captain, until the close of the war, when he located in Columbia county, Ark., where he married Miss Maggie Gladny and where he has since resided. Captain Boreing is prominently known in South Eastern Ark., and Northern La., as a live stock dealer, and has in a measure furnished and supplied the farmers of that section of the country with horses and mules for a number of years, was also a merchant in the town where he lived and is regarded as a valuable citizen of his county. In fact he has so long supplied hundreds of farmers with farm stock and other supplies in the Spring and bought their cotton in the fall, that the common saying now is: "We don't see how many of our people can live without John Boreing." His death has created a real vacancy in the business, social and religious circles of that town. He was a highly appreciated member of the Methodist church, and a most generous and hospitable gentleman. He leaves a very intelligent and highly respected family, consisting of a wife and six children. The oldest Charles W. is in his 22nd year a promising business young man, who has promptly taken his place at the head of the grief stricken family, and pursuant to his fathers request has administered upon his estate. All classes of people unite in their expressions of sympathy and deepest regret that such a man should come to his death by such means.
A strange and worthless negro from Louisiana is suspected as the guilty party and has been lodged in jail, and but for the protests of Mr. Boreings brother Vincent and other relations he would be promptly lynched after the custom of the South, but the sons taking advice from their uncle are determined to find out with certainty the guilty party and have the penalties of the cold law applied. The wound at first was not considered at all dangerous either by the deceased or his physicians. It seems that the rationality and cheerfullness of the patient entirely threw the Drs. off their guard, and they took the view of the matter that the wound was the effect of a glancing blow. So the relations in Kentucky and Texas were not notified until the day before his death, which fell like a thunder bolt from a clear sky to everybody. The autopsy revealed the fact that the skull was badly fractured and that the patients life might have been saved if the proper diagnosis had been made in the beginning Judge Boreing, of this place, left on the first train after the critical condition of his brother was made known to him, but he reached Magnolia, just after the funeral services had been preached by Dr. Harvey, of the Methoddist church and his body interred in the cemetery, and the grave beautifully covered with most lovely Southern roses as a token of their estimation of their distinguished fallen townsman, and his bereaved family."
from the "Mountain Echo"
Laurel County, Kentucky
October 31, 1890
Proud Confederate Soldier
"October 31,-- Captain John R. Boreing a prominent and highly respectable citizen, and leading business man of Magnolia, Columbia County, Ark., was struck on the head with a hammer by some unknown party on the night of the 16th inst and died from the effects of the wound on the 24th inst. The deceased was reared in Laurel county, Kentucky, and is a brother of Judge Vincent Boreing, of London, and the Rev. Amon Boreing, of Covington, Kentucky. he went from here to Pike's Peak when a young man and volunteered in the Confederate Army from the state of Missouri, and served with the rank of Captain, until the close of the war, when he located in Columbia county, Ark., where he married Miss Maggie Gladny and where he has since resided. Captain Boreing is prominently known in South Eastern Ark., and Northern La., as a live stock dealer, and has in a measure furnished and supplied the farmers of that section of the country with horses and mules for a number of years, was also a merchant in the town where he lived and is regarded as a valuable citizen of his county. In fact he has so long supplied hundreds of farmers with farm stock and other supplies in the Spring and bought their cotton in the fall, that the common saying now is: "We don't see how many of our people can live without John Boreing." His death has created a real vacancy in the business, social and religious circles of that town. He was a highly appreciated member of the Methodist church, and a most generous and hospitable gentleman. He leaves a very intelligent and highly respected family, consisting of a wife and six children. The oldest Charles W. is in his 22nd year a promising business young man, who has promptly taken his place at the head of the grief stricken family, and pursuant to his fathers request has administered upon his estate. All classes of people unite in their expressions of sympathy and deepest regret that such a man should come to his death by such means.
A strange and worthless negro from Louisiana is suspected as the guilty party and has been lodged in jail, and but for the protests of Mr. Boreings brother Vincent and other relations he would be promptly lynched after the custom of the South, but the sons taking advice from their uncle are determined to find out with certainty the guilty party and have the penalties of the cold law applied. The wound at first was not considered at all dangerous either by the deceased or his physicians. It seems that the rationality and cheerfullness of the patient entirely threw the Drs. off their guard, and they took the view of the matter that the wound was the effect of a glancing blow. So the relations in Kentucky and Texas were not notified until the day before his death, which fell like a thunder bolt from a clear sky to everybody. The autopsy revealed the fact that the skull was badly fractured and that the patients life might have been saved if the proper diagnosis had been made in the beginning Judge Boreing, of this place, left on the first train after the critical condition of his brother was made known to him, but he reached Magnolia, just after the funeral services had been preached by Dr. Harvey, of the Methoddist church and his body interred in the cemetery, and the grave beautifully covered with most lovely Southern roses as a token of their estimation of their distinguished fallen townsman, and his bereaved family."
from the "Mountain Echo"
Laurel County, Kentucky
October 31, 1890
Pvt Co B 10th MO Infantry C.S.A.
Proud Confederate Soldier
"October 31,-- Captain John R. Boreing a prominent and highly respectable citizen, and leading business man of Magnolia, Columbia County, Ark., was struck on the head with a hammer by some unknown party on the night of the 16th inst and died from the effects of the wound on the 24th inst. The deceased was reared in Laurel county, Kentucky, and is a brother of Judge Vincent Boreing, of London, and the Rev. Amon Boreing, of Covington, Kentucky. he went from here to Pike's Peak when a young man and volunteered in the Confederate Army from the state of Missouri, and served with the rank of Captain, until the close of the war, when he located in Columbia county, Ark., where he married Miss Maggie Gladny and where he has since resided. Captain Boreing is prominently known in South Eastern Ark., and Northern La., as a live stock dealer, and has in a measure furnished and supplied the farmers of that section of the country with horses and mules for a number of years, was also a merchant in the town where he lived and is regarded as a valuable citizen of his county. In fact he has so long supplied hundreds of farmers with farm stock and other supplies in the Spring and bought their cotton in the fall, that the common saying now is: "We don't see how many of our people can live without John Boreing." His death has created a real vacancy in the business, social and religious circles of that town. He was a highly appreciated member of the Methodist church, and a most generous and hospitable gentleman. He leaves a very intelligent and highly respected family, consisting of a wife and six children. The oldest Charles W. is in his 22nd year a promising business young man, who has promptly taken his place at the head of the grief stricken family, and pursuant to his fathers request has administered upon his estate. All classes of people unite in their expressions of sympathy and deepest regret that such a man should come to his death by such means.
A strange and worthless negro from Louisiana is suspected as the guilty party and has been lodged in jail, and but for the protests of Mr. Boreings brother Vincent and other relations he would be promptly lynched after the custom of the South, but the sons taking advice from their uncle are determined to find out with certainty the guilty party and have the penalties of the cold law applied. The wound at first was not considered at all dangerous either by the deceased or his physicians. It seems that the rationality and cheerfullness of the patient entirely threw the Drs. off their guard, and they took the view of the matter that the wound was the effect of a glancing blow. So the relations in Kentucky and Texas were not notified until the day before his death, which fell like a thunder bolt from a clear sky to everybody. The autopsy revealed the fact that the skull was badly fractured and that the patients life might have been saved if the proper diagnosis had been made in the beginning Judge Boreing, of this place, left on the first train after the critical condition of his brother was made known to him, but he reached Magnolia, just after the funeral services had been preached by Dr. Harvey, of the Methoddist church and his body interred in the cemetery, and the grave beautifully covered with most lovely Southern roses as a token of their estimation of their distinguished fallen townsman, and his bereaved family."
from the "Mountain Echo"
Laurel County, Kentucky
October 31, 1890
Proud Confederate Soldier
"October 31,-- Captain John R. Boreing a prominent and highly respectable citizen, and leading business man of Magnolia, Columbia County, Ark., was struck on the head with a hammer by some unknown party on the night of the 16th inst and died from the effects of the wound on the 24th inst. The deceased was reared in Laurel county, Kentucky, and is a brother of Judge Vincent Boreing, of London, and the Rev. Amon Boreing, of Covington, Kentucky. he went from here to Pike's Peak when a young man and volunteered in the Confederate Army from the state of Missouri, and served with the rank of Captain, until the close of the war, when he located in Columbia county, Ark., where he married Miss Maggie Gladny and where he has since resided. Captain Boreing is prominently known in South Eastern Ark., and Northern La., as a live stock dealer, and has in a measure furnished and supplied the farmers of that section of the country with horses and mules for a number of years, was also a merchant in the town where he lived and is regarded as a valuable citizen of his county. In fact he has so long supplied hundreds of farmers with farm stock and other supplies in the Spring and bought their cotton in the fall, that the common saying now is: "We don't see how many of our people can live without John Boreing." His death has created a real vacancy in the business, social and religious circles of that town. He was a highly appreciated member of the Methodist church, and a most generous and hospitable gentleman. He leaves a very intelligent and highly respected family, consisting of a wife and six children. The oldest Charles W. is in his 22nd year a promising business young man, who has promptly taken his place at the head of the grief stricken family, and pursuant to his fathers request has administered upon his estate. All classes of people unite in their expressions of sympathy and deepest regret that such a man should come to his death by such means.
A strange and worthless negro from Louisiana is suspected as the guilty party and has been lodged in jail, and but for the protests of Mr. Boreings brother Vincent and other relations he would be promptly lynched after the custom of the South, but the sons taking advice from their uncle are determined to find out with certainty the guilty party and have the penalties of the cold law applied. The wound at first was not considered at all dangerous either by the deceased or his physicians. It seems that the rationality and cheerfullness of the patient entirely threw the Drs. off their guard, and they took the view of the matter that the wound was the effect of a glancing blow. So the relations in Kentucky and Texas were not notified until the day before his death, which fell like a thunder bolt from a clear sky to everybody. The autopsy revealed the fact that the skull was badly fractured and that the patients life might have been saved if the proper diagnosis had been made in the beginning Judge Boreing, of this place, left on the first train after the critical condition of his brother was made known to him, but he reached Magnolia, just after the funeral services had been preached by Dr. Harvey, of the Methoddist church and his body interred in the cemetery, and the grave beautifully covered with most lovely Southern roses as a token of their estimation of their distinguished fallen townsman, and his bereaved family."
from the "Mountain Echo"
Laurel County, Kentucky
October 31, 1890
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