Obituaries: Otis Harper, 1930, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 30, 1930 Winn Parish Enterprise

Negro Man Accidently Killed At Dodson, La.

Saturday afternoon at about 3:30 Wilson Stovall, 10 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. F. Stovall, accidentally shot Otis Harper, negro man, age 50 years. 
Harper had come to Dodson from some of the flooded areas and was employed as a
farm hand on Mr. Stovall's farm.

According to reports, the Stovall youth was playing with a single-barrel
shotgun, which, in some manner was accidentally discharged, the shot having
entered the colored man's stomach.  The negro was treated by a physician in
Winnfield who decided best to convey him to a Shreveport sanitarium for
further treatment.  The negro, however, died at Jamestown, en route to
Shreveport, the body being brought back to Dodson where it was buried Sunday
afternoon.