Newspapers/Obit:  Monroe Burns, Claiborne Parish LA
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Date:  Jul. 2000



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, January 21, 1871
Page 4, Column 2

     Fatal Encounter. The Claiborne Advocate, of the 7th inst., has the
following:

     A difficulty occurred last week between Troy Harrison and Monroe Burns,
near Shongaloo, in this parish, resulting in the death of the latter by a
frightful cut in the abdomen, and the wounding of the former by a pistol shot.
Both parties to this sad affair were men of families.

     The trouble grew out of a dispute about a negro, that both wanted to hire
during the ensuing year. Mr. Burns was an old citizen of the parish and a worthy
man and a good citizen, and we sincerely condole with his widow and children in
their affliction. Of Mr. Harrison we know but little, but never heard of his
being engaged in any other difficulty.

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