Death of Choate Reeves, 1867 - Smith Co, TX

Contributed by Vicki Betts <Vicki_Betts@mail.uttyl.edu>
August 11, 2002

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DALLAS HERALD, February 2, 1867, p. 2, c. 1

We clip the following item (says the Palestine News,) from the Tyler 
Index. Our community will remember the subject of this notice while 
in this place. He was a reckless young man, and only met the fate 
common to men of his habits:

"A young man named Choate Reeves was taken up by the civil authority 
of our place for some misdemeanor and fined; failing to plank up he 
was remanded to jail. Shortly afterwards a squad of men came into 
town, no one knew them, paid Reeves' fine and other indebtedness 
and took him off a prisoner. Their conduct, we must say was very 
suspicious, and a few days ago we learned that Reeves' body was 
found in Sabine bottom, near the line of Wood county, with eleven 
balls shot into him.