1905 Murder of Jefferson Davis Everett, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 10/2004

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1905 Murder of Jefferson Davis Everett
Farmerville "Gazette", 25 January 1905
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                               Killing in Marion.

News reached Farmerville Monday night of the killing of Davis Everett by 
Dave Lewis in Marion late Monday afternoon. The news of the killing came 
quite as a surprise to many of the Farmerville people as it was known that 
Mr. Everett was in Farmerville Monday as late as 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

The particulars of the killing ard hard to get at but from what we can learn 
Lewis walked into Everett’s house where he found him sitting before the fire. 
Lewis spoke to him and telling him that his time had come opened fire, shooting 
him four times and killing him instantly. Lewis has not been captured at the 
time of this writing.

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Comments:

Jefferson Davis Everett [Davis] (6 Aug 1861 – 23 Jan 1905) was the son of 
Thomas Masipsa Everett (31 Aug 1823 – 19 Feb 1894) and Mary Masterson 
(1835 – 1 July 1871). 


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