Rebuttal to Assassination of a Minister - Rev. Nathan H. Bray, Vernon Parish La
Submitted by: Doyle Smith 
Date: June 26, 2006

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In the book "Sabine Parish The 1850 Census With Added Family Information", 
by Kathy Casagranda, pub. by author, Palmer, Alaska, May 1999 appears the 
following article: 
"From the SABINE INDEX is the following. "In those days communication was poor 
and communities which today are neighbors were then highly remote. The pastor 
of the Mansfield Baptist Church, Green W. Hartsfield, received a report that 
Bray had been murdered. Hartsfield then wrote an account of his death, which 
was published in "THE BAPTIST" on May 24 1873. This paper was widely read in 
Louisiana at the time. Bray, upon reading the notice of his death, wrote to 
Hartsfield that, "He did not believe a word of this." He said that he could 
prove the rumor false! It took two months to correct this paper, another 
indication of the slowness of communication in those days." 

Now, I do not have any first hand knowledge of this but it appears to be true 
because Nathan H. Bray is buried in the Old Anacoco Cemetery, Vernon Parish, 
Louisiana, with a date of death of 18 Feb 1875, One and one half years after 
the newspaper article.