Macon County NcArchives Obituaries.....Matlock, B. S.  February 24, 1859
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Thurs. March 17,  1859   North Carolina Argus
   A correspondent of the Asheville News says that B. S. MATLOCK, who resided 
some nine miles north of Franklin, Macon County, in this State, went to that 
village on the 24th ult. on his way home from a trip to Cherokee. He left the 
village about an hour before sunset, is known to have called at a neighbor's 
house, to get some money changed and then, some hour of the night to have gone 
on towards home. Not long after, at another house, four miles from the 
village, the women (the men were absent) were alarmed by cries 
of "murder," "help" and "have I any friends?" etc., but were afraid to go out. 
The cries were continued for some hours, when with lighted torch some of the 
women went to where the cries came from, and B. S. MATLOCK was foound in the 
ford of the branch, his horse gone, his head bleeding and himself unconscious 
as to how he was hurt. They took him to the house, and the Doctor was called 
in the next morning; his skull was found to be dreadfully broken, and he soon 
died. The impression is general that he was murdered.

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