Reconstruction Era: More Murders, Grant Parish, LA
Submitted to USGENWEB by:
Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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Copied from Congressional Record, U. S. House of Represenatives, 44th
Congress,2nd Session, Ex. Doc., No. 30, "Use of the Army in Certain of the
Southern States," page 333.


Winn.

     Lieutenant Butts, also a teamster at Nantachie bridge, thrown into a
well at Kimball's house, I. R. West (should be J. R. West), David Frame, Geo.
Frame, and five others killed at the same time; names forgotten, but can be
found out.  Bill Kimball, Harris Frazier, and another killed at same time;
names forgotten-can be proven.  Albert Haile-total, 15.

(The above is in reference to the West & Kimbrell Clan written about in
Richard Briley's Nightriders-The Inside Story of the West and Kimbrell Clan",
published in the 1960s and recopyrighted and published in the 1990s.  This
undated entry is recopied "as is" from the Congressional journal, apparently
added to a list of reports of murders during Reconstruction across the state,
as several other similar entries of other parishes appear as well.  Submitted to USGENWEB 
by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)