Clay County AlArchives News.....Ingram, John seeks parole his son Grover. December 13, 1911
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Our Mountain Home December 13, 1911
Twenty-year-old Grover Ingram is sick with the typhoid fever in the state 
convict camp at Speigners, Ala., and dozens of people in Clay County believing 
that he should never have been convicted for having slain Ezra Morris, whom he 
killed at Delta, near this place, December 1909, and they are supporting an 
effort to get Governor O'Neal to pardon or parole him. 
With nine members of the jury convicted Ingram asking for clemency with the 
prosecuting solicitor lending his efforts on behalf of the boy, with a petition 
signed by an but ten men in his home precinct urging that he be freed, with the 
prison officials declarations that the young convict had conducted himself a 
model convict during the two years he has been under them. John B. Ingram, 
father of the boy, and one of the most highly respected citizens in the county, 
was in Montgomery Tuesday to ask the governor to restore the boy to his family.
Although the jury convicted Ingram of murder in the second degree and 
recommended that he be sent to the penitentiary for a term for ten years, the 
members decided before they had separated following the trial that they had made 
a mistake and a majority of them agreed that in a few months they would come out 
favoring the boy's pardon. 
The crime that Ingram was convicted of was committed about 150 yards from the of 
W.L. Smith of Delta, one Sunday night, and after some words had passed between 
him and Morris, who was 18 years in Smith's home and in the presence of his two 
daughters. They walked from the house together, and when Morris cut Ingram with 
a knife and was advancing on him again, according to the evidence, the latter 
drew his pistol and shot Morris, who died several weeks later.
Trouble arose between the two young men following Ingram telling Smith the 
Sunday night before they both were there that he though Morris was drinking. 
Smith had asked Ingram if Morris was not drinking, then, when he later told 
Morris what Ingram had said, Morris became infuriated, and rode. over the 
country declaring that he was after Ingram.

Additional Comments:
Note:
Lewis Latham married a Confederate widow by the name Eliza Morris, she had a son 
William Morris which Lewis Latham raised, and he went by the name "William 
Latham".  William [Morris] Latham married Martha Cofield and their son Ezra 
LATHAM was the young man killed mention above. He is buried at Liberty Church of 
Christ Cemetery in Randolph County, Alabama.

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