Miller County Archives Obituary for Ike Spradley 1907 Submitted by Debra Boswell Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Miller County Liberal, Wednesday Jan 30, 1907 "While working in a penitentiary near Dublin, Ike Spradley, a negro, who was sentenced for 3 years from this place for being implicated in shooting a negro by the name of Rosenboro, was killed about a week ago by a falling tree. Ike Spradley had the name of being an industrious negro; and many of the best citizens here expressed sympathy for him in his trouble. He left here assuring his wife and his friends that he would give the keepers of the penitentiary no trouble."