William Emanuel Basinger was born in Rowan County, North Carolina on 19 June 1862 to Barham Parker and Mary Shaver Basinger. He married Cornelia Ann Miller on 18 July 1880 in Stanly County, North Carolina.
Sometime after April 1891, William Emanuel Basinger (28 years old), his wife, six children and two of his brothers, James Frank Basinger (23 years old) and Howell Murphy Basinger (18 years old) left Rowan County, North Carolina and went West.
On the trail out west, his oldest son Ivy Thomas Park Basinger died, presumably in Tennessee. The family finally settled in/around Rose Bud, White County, Arkansas where William's last two children were born in 1893 and 1895.
William was sentenced twice for illicit distilling and served from 02 June 1899 to 01 January 1901 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and from 21 April 1903 to 07 May 1906 at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.
About 1905, his wife, Cornelia and children moved to Jamestown, Bienville Parish, Louisiana where she remained until her death on 18 October 1945.
Shortly after he was released from prison in May 1906, he was shot and it was initially reported that he died but the next week the headline read "Basinger Still Alive". On 22 November 1906 a descriptive article was published in THE MONTICELLONIAN describing his fatal injuries from being shot a second time. It is unknown at this time what became of the body.
Family lore is that he was killed by Revenuers.
Sometime after April 1891, William Emanuel Basinger (28 years old), his wife, six children and two of his brothers, James Frank Basinger (23 years old) and Howell Murphy Basinger (18 years old) left Rowan County, North Carolina and went West.
On the trail out west, his oldest son Ivy Thomas Park Basinger died, presumably in Tennessee. The family finally settled in/around Rose Bud, White County, Arkansas where William's last two children were born in 1893 and 1895.
William was sentenced twice for illicit distilling and served from 02 June 1899 to 01 January 1901 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and from 21 April 1903 to 07 May 1906 at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.
About 1905, his wife, Cornelia and children moved to Jamestown, Bienville Parish, Louisiana where she remained until her death on 18 October 1945.
Shortly after he was released from prison in May 1906, he was shot and it was initially reported that he died but the next week the headline read "Basinger Still Alive". On 22 November 1906 a descriptive article was published in THE MONTICELLONIAN describing his fatal injuries from being shot a second time. It is unknown at this time what became of the body.
Family lore is that he was killed by Revenuers.
William Emanuel Basinger was born in Rowan County, North Carolina on 19 June 1862 to Barham Parker and Mary Shaver Basinger. He married Cornelia Ann Miller on 18 July 1880 in Stanly County, North Carolina.
Sometime after April 1891, William Emanuel Basinger (28 years old), his wife, six children and two of his brothers, James Frank Basinger (23 years old) and Howell Murphy Basinger (18 years old) left Rowan County, North Carolina and went West.
On the trail out west, his oldest son Ivy Thomas Park Basinger died, presumably in Tennessee. The family finally settled in/around Rose Bud, White County, Arkansas where William's last two children were born in 1893 and 1895.
William was sentenced twice for illicit distilling and served from 02 June 1899 to 01 January 1901 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and from 21 April 1903 to 07 May 1906 at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.
About 1905, his wife, Cornelia and children moved to Jamestown, Bienville Parish, Louisiana where she remained until her death on 18 October 1945.
Shortly after he was released from prison in May 1906, he was shot and it was initially reported that he died but the next week the headline read "Basinger Still Alive". On 22 November 1906 a descriptive article was published in THE MONTICELLONIAN describing his fatal injuries from being shot a second time. It is unknown at this time what became of the body.
Family lore is that he was killed by Revenuers.
Sometime after April 1891, William Emanuel Basinger (28 years old), his wife, six children and two of his brothers, James Frank Basinger (23 years old) and Howell Murphy Basinger (18 years old) left Rowan County, North Carolina and went West.
On the trail out west, his oldest son Ivy Thomas Park Basinger died, presumably in Tennessee. The family finally settled in/around Rose Bud, White County, Arkansas where William's last two children were born in 1893 and 1895.
William was sentenced twice for illicit distilling and served from 02 June 1899 to 01 January 1901 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and from 21 April 1903 to 07 May 1906 at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.
About 1905, his wife, Cornelia and children moved to Jamestown, Bienville Parish, Louisiana where she remained until her death on 18 October 1945.
Shortly after he was released from prison in May 1906, he was shot and it was initially reported that he died but the next week the headline read "Basinger Still Alive". On 22 November 1906 a descriptive article was published in THE MONTICELLONIAN describing his fatal injuries from being shot a second time. It is unknown at this time what became of the body.
Family lore is that he was killed by Revenuers.
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