Rockingham County NcArchives News.....Comer Murder April 27, 1837
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Fri.,  April 27, 1837, Patriot,  (Greensboro, N.C.) April 27, 1837
MURDER FOUL -- ! A horrid murder was committed in Rockingham County, on 
Thursday the 19th inst. The particulars, so far as we have been able to gather 
them, are these: On the day above mentioned, while MR. WILLIAM COMER (overseer 
for ABNER WEBSTER) was sitting on a stump, in a tobacco field, where a parcel 
of Negroes were engaged in making tobacco hills, and while he was calculating 
on paper the number of hills which had been made, one of the Negroes came near 
him and gave him a blow on the head, which brought him to the ground, when MR. 
COMER received many other blows inflicted by four Negroes, who conspired his 
death. The Negroes have all been arrested and lodged in jail.



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