Rockingham County NcArchives Obituaries.....Comer, William 1838
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Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers of the German Reformed Church, 1830-1839, Barbara Manning author, Heritage Books, 1992
Rockingham Co NC
William Comer, overseer for Abner Webster, was murdered by a group of four
negroes on the 19th ult. [?ca April 1838] while sitting on a stump calculating
the number of hills in a tobacco field.  Death was a result of blows to the head
and other areas of his body which had been inflicted by the negroes.  The
negroes were arrested and jailed.  First published in the Greensboro NC Patriot
[issue date not given]; notice published 09 May 1838.


Additional Comments:
Some NC Deaths from the book “Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers of the
German Reformed Church 1830-1839”, by Barbara Manning; extracts from the
newspaper The Weekly Messenger of the German Reformed Church, published in
Chambersburg, PA. “Notice” refers to the date of publication in The Weekly
Messenger of the German Reformed Church.  Added information by this submitter is
in brackets [  ].

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