Obituaries: Kieffer C. Doxey, 1947, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 14, 1947 Winn Parish Enterprise

Former Ward 5 Resident Slain Tuesday in Texas

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for Kieffer C.
Doxey, 50, of Houston, Texas, at the Mt. Zion Cemetery near Montgomery, La.

Mr. Doxey, a former resident of Ward Five, and son of the late Justice of the
Peace J. T. Doxey of Ward Five, was slain Tuesday by his son-in-law, Ray
Rivers, Jr., during a family dispute.  The following article, which appeared
in the Houston Chronicle, tells of the slaying:

"Climaxing a bitter family argument, Ray Rivers, Jr., 21 year old welder, shot
and killed his father in law, Kieffer C. Doxey, 50 year old truck driver,
about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the duplex occupied by the two families, at 2317-19
Elysian.

Charged before Justice Tom Maes with murder, Rivers was released from City
Jail Tuesday under $ 2500 bond.

Argued Over Trip To Doctor's

The argument, according to Mrs. Rivers, was started by her father, who became
enraged after the Rivers took their daughter to the doctor without taking the
two Doxey children, who were also due to visit the doctor.

"I asked my mother, when we started for the doctor's, about 6 o'clock, whether
she wanted us to take my brother and sister, but she said 'No,' because they
were out playing," Mrs. Rivers told Homicide Capt. George Peyton.

After the Rivers returned from the doctor's, they had supper and then, Mrs.
Rivers said, she went to her parents' apartment to bring home little Johnnie
Ray Rivers, her two year old daughter who was playing in the Doxey apartment.

Couldn't Be Mollified

Mrs. Rivers said her father followed her home, cursing Rivers for having
failed to take the Doxey children to the doctor's.  Efforts by his own
children and Mrs. Doxey to mollify him were unsuccessful, Mrs. Rivers said.

After a heated argument, her father returned to his own apartment, but could
be heard, through the thin wall of the duplex, shouting and cursing, Mrs.
Rivers said.  She became alarmed and went to a neighbor's to call police, she
said, after her husband took his shotgun from a closet.

Mrs. Doxey told police that her husband returned from the Rivers apartment in
a high rage, and in spite of her efforts to prevent him, insisted on getting a
metal wrench handle out of a tool box and going back to Rivers' apartment.

Mother Called Warning

As he started out the back door, Mrs. Rivers heard her mother call a warning
to Rivers.

Rivers said that he had locked the back door of his apartment, and that his
father in law stood outside his window, cursing him and threatening him.

Rivers told police that he tried to placate his father in law several times
and warned him to go home, but his father in law replied: 'If you're not
coming out, then I'm coming in to get you.'"

Rivers said he then fired once through the window with his shotgun.

The blast struck Doxey close to the heart.  He staggered to the front of the
duplex and then fell dead.