Sampson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Herring, Jack 1898
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The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) 8 July 1898
Clinton Democrat: One day last week, Jack Herring, a well known colored man of
Lisbon township, became enraged at his daughter, John Cornelius, and attempted
to chastise her in a rather brutal manner. John Cornelius, who possessed
masculine strength as well as a masculine name, defended herself with an
umbrella which she had in her hand when assaulted. In warding off the blow, she
thrust the end of the umbrella into her father's eye about four inches up to the
cloth. Here, the wooden staff broke off, about four inches of it remaining in
the old man's eye. It was pulled out by Mr Richard Herring with a pair of
blacksmith's tongs. The staff had penetrated the brain and after lingering in an
unconscious condition for about forty hours the old man died. The girl was
arrested and is now confined in jail here upon a charge of murdering her father.
She will set up a plea of self defense at her trial, which comes off at the
October term of court.

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