Chatham County NcArchives Obituaries.....Gunter, Frank August 6, 1874
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The Stateville Landmark, Statesville, NC newspaper, issue date 08 Aug 1874
Death of Frank Gunter, age 19 years old

A Sad and Fatal Accident in Chatham County, [North Carolina].-

We learn that a terrible tragedy was enacted in Chatham County on Thursday in
the vicinity of Lockville.  Two gentlemen of that neighborhood Messrs James
Ferrell and Frank Gunter, the latter a young man some nineteen years of age went
out turkey hunting but neither knew the other was out.  They both began yelping
in the same body of woods, and each mistook the other for a turkey.  Young
Gunter commenced advancing, cautiously crawling through the woods to his
supposed game.  Farrell being hid and eagerly watching the direction from which
his yelping was answered, until the unfortunate Gunter was seen through the
bushes, when Ferrell took deliberate aim with his rifle and shot him dead
through the brain.  He then ran eagerly to what he supposed was his turkey and
found his young friend, Gunter stretched out a corpse.  Mr. Ferrell has hardly
spoken a word since.  Both were citizens of Lockville and were intimate friends 


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