Catahoula County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Campbell, Colin July 30, 1849
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Mississippi Free Trader and Natchez Gazette (Natchez, MS), August 15, 1849
	Murder in Catahoula Parish. – On the 30th ult., in a house on Wallace's 
Ridge, six miles from Harrisonburg, La., on the Trinity (Catahoula) Road, James 
Morris killed Colin Campbell, by striking him on the head with a chair.  Morris 
is a man of great muscular power, and the stroke was so severe as to fracture 
the skull of Campbell, who ran a short distance and expired almost immediately 
after receiving it.  The Concordia Intelligencer says in relation to the 
occurrence:
	"Both parties to this murder were men of middle age and heads of 
families.  Neither of them were men of bad character, while one – the less 
unfortunate of the two, the murdered man, Colin Campbell, was generally 
esteemed and liked in both Catahoula and Concordia parishes.  It appears that 
some time ago he rented from Morris a portion of the place where he was killed –
 Morris continuing to occupy a portion of it also.  The term of renting having 
expired, Morris notified Campbell that he must leave the premises ; and 
Campbell answered that he could not or would not leave until he found another 
house.  Threats of ejection followed, and were defied ; the parties met, and 
lo!  the murder!"

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