Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Harcrow, James M.  May 26, 1876
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Our Mountain Home
Oxford Tribune Sep 21, 1876:
John Fant, alias John Smith, the murderer of James Harcrow, at Mumford, 
Talladega County, passed down the road on Tuesday morning under the vigilant 
care of Z. M. Hays, of this place, and J. M. Bellah of Summerville Ga. He was 
lodged in Talladega jail and will be tried at this term of the Talladega court.

Our Mountain Home Jan 4, 1911
A shocking murder that stirred the county on the evening of May 26, 1876, 
occurred at the supper table of Mr. Joseph Camp, of Munford when John Smith shot 
James M. Harcrow, of Clay County. The governor offered a reward of $200, and 
Smith was arrested and tried for murder in Talladega and was sentenced to the 
penitentiary for life eleven of the jury being in favor of hanging, but Dr. 
Anglin, a member of the jury who afterward removed to Birmingham would not agree 
to hanging. Smith while in the penitentiary killed a guard and escaped.

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