Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Wishart, Robert E. 1906
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Robesonian  Monday August 27, 1906, page 1, column 2
DEATH NOTICE OF MR. ROBERT E. WISHART

Killing of Mr. Wishart.

Ocala, Fla., Banner, 20th.

   Mr. Robert E. Wishart, of this city, was shot and instantly killed
about 8 o’clock Sunday morning at San Antonia.  This news when heard
here a short while after the shooting created a great deal of
excitement and many rumors were affoat as to the reason for the deed.
Mr. Wishart was a kindly and pleasant gentleman and had no known
enemies.

   Mr. Wishart was in the crosstie business, having a camp at Enheru
in Pasco county, neat San Antonio.  His daughters, Misses Jennie and
Annabella Wishart, were on a visit to him at that place and in company
with their father drove over to San Antonia Sunday morning to have
some dental work done.  One of the young ladies was in the chair, the
dentist, Dr. Nobles, operating on her teeth.  A knock was heard at the
door and as the dentist was busy, Mr. Wishart answered the knock.  A
turpentine operator by the name of Burton was standing without and
asked if Dr. Nobles was in.  Mr. Wishart answered in the affirmative
and as the words left his mouth Burton fired at him with a shot gun
killing him instantly.  As the dead man fell his murderer uttered
these words,  “Nobles, you have ruined my life,” or words to that
effect.  In his rage and haste he had committed a more awful crime
than he had intended, mistaking Mr. Wishart for the dentist thereby
killing an innocent man, of whom he had never heard before.

   The daughters of Mr. Wishart were horribly shocked over the tragedy
and inconsolable in their grief.

   The murderer was captured and is not in jail at Dade City.

   Mrs. Wishart, Tom and Waldo Wishart, the wife and sons of the
deceased, went down to San Antonio Sunday afternoon.  They were
accompanied by Mr. C. V. Roberts, who carried down the casket and
prepared the remains for burial.  The funeral will be held today at
Sutherland, the funeral cortege having arrived there last night.

   Besides the four children already mentioned he leaves another son,
Mr. Karl Wishart, who is in the turpentine business in Mississippi,
and a second wife, who was Mrs. Mary A. Norwood, of this city, to whom
he was only married about four months ago.

   Mr. Wishart had made many friends in Ocala, where were very much
shocked at his tragic death and they all unite in extending their
condolence to the stricken family.

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   Mr. Wishart’s death is worthy of more than mere mention.  He was
born in Robeson county 55 years ago last March.  Thirty years ago he
moved to Georgia and engaged in the turpentine industry.  Eight years
ago he left that State and went to Florida to live.  It is understood
he had made and was making good money.  Besides a large number of more
distant relatives, he has two sisters and two brothers living.  They
are Mesdames I. J. Belch, of Bellamy; C. F. Cottingham, of Clio, S.
C.; Messrs. A. S. Wishart, of Lumberton, and J. W. Wishart, of
Wilmington.

   Mr. Wishart was one of five his brother, Mr. A. S. Wishart also
being of the number, who received a proportionate part of the $6,000
reward for killing Tom Lowrie, a member of the Lowrie gang, in 1872.
Col. F. M. Wishart, their brother, had been killed by the Lowrie gang
a few weeks before.  It was to avenge his death that his brothers,
Messrs. A. S. and R. E. Wishart, organized the “Wishart Company” to
hunt and kill the Lowries.
          

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