News account appeared in Forrest City Arkansas Times 12-14-1894∼Edward L. Jones was first married to Martha A. Brittenum on 26 July 1849 In Marshall County MS according to the 1826-50 Mississippi Marriage Records.
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PUBLISHED IN THE FORREST CITY, ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS TIMES, DECEMBER 14, 1984
JONES, ED....The result of a quarrel over a bill of fruit trees. Ed Jones fatally wounded and Joe Shumate and Willis Jones painfully shot Dr. Emmet Allen dead.
The particulars of an attempt upon the life of Joe Shumate and which resulted in the death of Dr. Emmet Allen, an innocent bystander, reached town Tuesday morning.
It seems that Joe Shumate, a fruit tree vender, a citizen of Colt, nine miles north of Forrest City, had traded an invoice of trees to a man named Bampson, for one or more hogs, and on Monday started in the buggy to posses the swine. Dr. Emmet Allen, having business in Wynne jumped into the buggy and they drove off. When they entered the Caldwell place they met Ed Jones, Shumate stopped and asked Jones to settle for a bill of trees which he had ordered and payment was refused. Hot words ensued, but Shumate and Allen drove on. Jones took a circuitous route and arrived at the home of his brother Willis who lives on the Dodson place three miles from Colt, in Cross county, near Smith chapel. Here he informed his brother of the trouble and procured a hammerless shot gun and stationed himself at the gate awaiting the arrival of Shumate, who soon put in an appearance, having to pass that way in his journey. The quarrel was renewed and Jones is said to have tried to shoot, but owing to complications of the hammerless shot gun which he did not fully understand, was delayed a few moments and in the meantime Shumate who had a gun in the buggy fired the shot taking effect in Jones' stomach. Willis and Zeke Jones appeared on the scene with a shot gun and pistols, and the firing became general. A shot supposed to have been fired by Ed Jones took effect in the arms of Shumate and Allen, from which the later died 12 hours later, from loss of blood. Later Ed Jones died Wednesday, and it was stated that Willis Jones was dead and Shumate was not expected to recover.
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PUBLISHED IN THE FORREST CITY, ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS TIMES, DECEMBER 14, 1984
JONES, ED....The result of a quarrel over a bill of fruit trees. Ed Jones fatally wounded and Joe Shumate and Willis Jones painfully shot Dr. Emmet Allen dead.
The particulars of an attempt upon the life of Joe Shumate and which resulted in the death of Dr. Emmet Allen, an innocent bystander, reached town Tuesday morning.
It seems that Joe Shumate, a fruit tree vender, a citizen of Colt, nine miles north of Forrest City, had traded an invoice of trees to a man named Bampson, for one or more hogs, and on Monday started in the buggy to posses the swine. Dr. Emmet Allen, having business in Wynne jumped into the buggy and they drove off. When they entered the Caldwell place they met Ed Jones, Shumate stopped and asked Jones to settle for a bill of trees which he had ordered and payment was refused. Hot words ensued, but Shumate and Allen drove on. Jones took a circuitous route and arrived at the home of his brother Willis who lives on the Dodson place three miles from Colt, in Cross county, near Smith chapel. Here he informed his brother of the trouble and procured a hammerless shot gun and stationed himself at the gate awaiting the arrival of Shumate, who soon put in an appearance, having to pass that way in his journey. The quarrel was renewed and Jones is said to have tried to shoot, but owing to complications of the hammerless shot gun which he did not fully understand, was delayed a few moments and in the meantime Shumate who had a gun in the buggy fired the shot taking effect in Jones' stomach. Willis and Zeke Jones appeared on the scene with a shot gun and pistols, and the firing became general. A shot supposed to have been fired by Ed Jones took effect in the arms of Shumate and Allen, from which the later died 12 hours later, from loss of blood. Later Ed Jones died Wednesday, and it was stated that Willis Jones was dead and Shumate was not expected to recover.
News account appeared in Forrest City Arkansas Times 12-14-1894∼Edward L. Jones was first married to Martha A. Brittenum on 26 July 1849 In Marshall County MS according to the 1826-50 Mississippi Marriage Records.
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PUBLISHED IN THE FORREST CITY, ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS TIMES, DECEMBER 14, 1984
JONES, ED....The result of a quarrel over a bill of fruit trees. Ed Jones fatally wounded and Joe Shumate and Willis Jones painfully shot Dr. Emmet Allen dead.
The particulars of an attempt upon the life of Joe Shumate and which resulted in the death of Dr. Emmet Allen, an innocent bystander, reached town Tuesday morning.
It seems that Joe Shumate, a fruit tree vender, a citizen of Colt, nine miles north of Forrest City, had traded an invoice of trees to a man named Bampson, for one or more hogs, and on Monday started in the buggy to posses the swine. Dr. Emmet Allen, having business in Wynne jumped into the buggy and they drove off. When they entered the Caldwell place they met Ed Jones, Shumate stopped and asked Jones to settle for a bill of trees which he had ordered and payment was refused. Hot words ensued, but Shumate and Allen drove on. Jones took a circuitous route and arrived at the home of his brother Willis who lives on the Dodson place three miles from Colt, in Cross county, near Smith chapel. Here he informed his brother of the trouble and procured a hammerless shot gun and stationed himself at the gate awaiting the arrival of Shumate, who soon put in an appearance, having to pass that way in his journey. The quarrel was renewed and Jones is said to have tried to shoot, but owing to complications of the hammerless shot gun which he did not fully understand, was delayed a few moments and in the meantime Shumate who had a gun in the buggy fired the shot taking effect in Jones' stomach. Willis and Zeke Jones appeared on the scene with a shot gun and pistols, and the firing became general. A shot supposed to have been fired by Ed Jones took effect in the arms of Shumate and Allen, from which the later died 12 hours later, from loss of blood. Later Ed Jones died Wednesday, and it was stated that Willis Jones was dead and Shumate was not expected to recover.
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PUBLISHED IN THE FORREST CITY, ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS TIMES, DECEMBER 14, 1984
JONES, ED....The result of a quarrel over a bill of fruit trees. Ed Jones fatally wounded and Joe Shumate and Willis Jones painfully shot Dr. Emmet Allen dead.
The particulars of an attempt upon the life of Joe Shumate and which resulted in the death of Dr. Emmet Allen, an innocent bystander, reached town Tuesday morning.
It seems that Joe Shumate, a fruit tree vender, a citizen of Colt, nine miles north of Forrest City, had traded an invoice of trees to a man named Bampson, for one or more hogs, and on Monday started in the buggy to posses the swine. Dr. Emmet Allen, having business in Wynne jumped into the buggy and they drove off. When they entered the Caldwell place they met Ed Jones, Shumate stopped and asked Jones to settle for a bill of trees which he had ordered and payment was refused. Hot words ensued, but Shumate and Allen drove on. Jones took a circuitous route and arrived at the home of his brother Willis who lives on the Dodson place three miles from Colt, in Cross county, near Smith chapel. Here he informed his brother of the trouble and procured a hammerless shot gun and stationed himself at the gate awaiting the arrival of Shumate, who soon put in an appearance, having to pass that way in his journey. The quarrel was renewed and Jones is said to have tried to shoot, but owing to complications of the hammerless shot gun which he did not fully understand, was delayed a few moments and in the meantime Shumate who had a gun in the buggy fired the shot taking effect in Jones' stomach. Willis and Zeke Jones appeared on the scene with a shot gun and pistols, and the firing became general. A shot supposed to have been fired by Ed Jones took effect in the arms of Shumate and Allen, from which the later died 12 hours later, from loss of blood. Later Ed Jones died Wednesday, and it was stated that Willis Jones was dead and Shumate was not expected to recover.
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