Ouachita County Louisiana Archives News.....Death of W. C. Buffington October 21, 1885
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The Monroe Bulletin, October 21, 1885 October 21, 1885
The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, October 21, 1885 Page 3, Column 1 

In an altercation last Thursday on the Rhodes place, Island DeSiard, between 
Capt. W.C. Buffington and Mr. W. S. Rhodes, the former was killed. From what 
we can learn Buffington made an assault upon Rhodes with a knife and the 
latter struck him in the head with a mallet, death resulting from the blow 
Sunday morning. Capt. Buffington was in town the morning before the 
difficulty, drinking freely, and was very quarrelsome. He went home and raised 
the trouble with Rhodes and his rashness cost him his life. Rhodes is a man 
reluctant to get into trouble but when angered and assaulted is said to be 
dangerous. Buffington and he were brothers-in-law and we cannot believe that 
he would have killed him unless compelled to have done so to save his own 
life. Capt. Buffington was at one time a successful steamboatman on the 
Ouachita. He leaves a wife and several children.


Additional Comments:
Verbal history in our family indicates Mary Olivia Collett Dabbs married W. C. 
Buffington.  He was abusive and she left him going to the home of her sister 
Eurilda Collett Rhodes.   When Buffington came for her, this altercation took 
place.  She was left to take care of her own child Julia Dabbs 15 and 3 of his 
children.
(Annie L. Buffington 15, Vera Buffington 13, Willie C. Buffington 12.

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