Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Dallas Morning News
August 30, 1907

Killed While Asleep

Special to the News
  Oakwoods, Tex., Aug. 29 - Robert Rakestraw, a negro about 28 years old, was
shot and instantly killed four miles north of Oakwoods, in Freestone County.
He had moved off a little distance from a crowd and went to sleep, and some one
shot from a distance of twenty yards and killed him while he slept.