Holmes County FlArchives Obituaries.....Sheves, Peter And Family December 10, 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com November 3, 2007, 8:28 pm Jan. 17, 1857 North Carolina Argus AN INDIAN MASSACRE IN FLORIDA -- PETER SHEVES, with his wife and two chidren were murdered and his house fired by Indians eight miles from Smyrna, Fla. on the 10th ult. SHEVES was found in the field some 60 yards from the house, with two bullet holes through his head, and body cut with an axe; his wife and little girl [were found ] shot at the water's edge in front of the house. The remains of their boy, ten years of age, was found among the burning ruins of the house. MR. SHEVES was from Pennsylvania, and had been in Florida only a short time. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/holmes/obits/s/sheves22gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/flfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb