DATE: Tuesday, November 5, 1918
DOUBLE KILLING NEAR PIEDMONT
HUBBARD TARRANT AND LARKIN HOWARD KILLED EACH OTHER LAST NIGHT
CAUSE YET UNKNOWN
Early this morning Deputy Sheriff E.M. Patterson was notified over the phone from Piedmont that Hubbard Tarrant and Larkin Howard had shot each other to death at Howard's home three miles from Piedmont on the MaMahon place. Tarrant was about 33 and Howard about 73. According to the report, Howard had been to Greenville last night and, returning home, found Tarrant there in the yard and shot him. Deputy Sheriff Patterson went to Piedmont this morning to investigate the tragedy.
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SOURCE: SCDC# 26223
Larkin Clayborn Howard
male, white, married
Date of Birth: August 1, 1847
Age: 71 years 3 months 3 days
Occupation: Farmer
Father: David Howard
Mother: not listed
Informant: Mrs. L. Howard
Date of Death: 04 November 1918
Cause of death: shot in head with 172 pistol, killed instantly (murdered)
Burial: not listed
Undertaker: W.L. Welborn, Pelzer, S.C.
{transcribed by Cathy Griffith // kjmoh}
DATE: Tuesday, November 5, 1918
DOUBLE KILLING NEAR PIEDMONT
HUBBARD TARRANT AND LARKIN HOWARD KILLED EACH OTHER LAST NIGHT
CAUSE YET UNKNOWN
Early this morning Deputy Sheriff E.M. Patterson was notified over the phone from Piedmont that Hubbard Tarrant and Larkin Howard had shot each other to death at Howard's home three miles from Piedmont on the MaMahon place. Tarrant was about 33 and Howard about 73. According to the report, Howard had been to Greenville last night and, returning home, found Tarrant there in the yard and shot him. Deputy Sheriff Patterson went to Piedmont this morning to investigate the tragedy.
___________________________
SOURCE: SCDC# 26223
Larkin Clayborn Howard
male, white, married
Date of Birth: August 1, 1847
Age: 71 years 3 months 3 days
Occupation: Farmer
Father: David Howard
Mother: not listed
Informant: Mrs. L. Howard
Date of Death: 04 November 1918
Cause of death: shot in head with 172 pistol, killed instantly (murdered)
Burial: not listed
Undertaker: W.L. Welborn, Pelzer, S.C.
{transcribed by Cathy Griffith // kjmoh}
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