Hopkins Co. TX - Killing of Price and Clarence Wood

Submitted by: June E. Tuck  <1224be@neto.com>

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Price and Clarence Wood - Price Wood, age about 50, was killed along with
his son, Clarence Wood, age 22. The tragedy was a result of a
misunderstanding between the Wood and Stockton families. His son, Jess
Wood, was shot through the right side and lung, and Delma (sic) Stockton
was shot twice in the shoulder and in the head, and his brother, Basil
Stockton, was shot in the right arm, which had at to be amputated. Each
family was well known and respected in that community where each had
lived for many years. Because of this ill feeling, trouble had been
brewing for some time. The two families live in about 300 yards of each
other, something like a mile west of Sherley, and had been good friends
until recently. Last Saturday afternoon Price Wood and his two sons went
down to the little village of Sherley, and the Stockton boys also were
there. The Stockton brothers bought cigars and left the store, as one of
them remarked he was going home. They went out of the building and around
to where their auto was. On the way to the auto they became involved in a
fight with the Woods in which knives and pistols were used freely with
the results as above stated. Basil Stockton and his brother, Delma,,,
were rushed to the Long Sanitarium in Sulphur Springs. Sunday night Jess
Wood was taken to the Sanitarium in Greenville. Sheriff Bingham,
Constable Charley Holley, County Attorney Tom Ramey, and Justice C.E.
Beasley hurried to the scene of the killing. They found two knives and
four guns on the parties and on the ground where the killing took place.
(Hopkins County Echo, Aug. 15, 1919) Later reported - A very large number
of people assembled in Sherley for the burial of Price Wood and his son.