FATAL DUEL IN MISSISSIPPI
New Albany, Miss., June 13, 1884---J. R. Reeves, Mayor and Editor of the Union County "Optic", and Lloyd Ford a good for nothing desperado had an altercation yesterday about the Congressional contest for the Democratic nomination. Revolvers were drawn, and each shot five times. Ford was shot in the breast and killed. One of the bullets from his pistol struck Squire Reeves, the father of J. R. Reeves, inflicting a flesh wound in the leg.
Father: Thomas Ford
Born: March 1832 in Tennessee
Died: 3 May 1906 Union County, Ms
Mother: Lucinda Catherine Nelson
Born: 1839 in Tippah County, Ms
Siblings:
Melvina Ford
1864-1940
William Ford
1866
Reuben Dale Ford
1868-1948
George Ford
1871
Thomas Ford
1872
Maude Ford
1875
Frank Ford
1878
Chester Dare Ford
1881-1953
New Albany, Miss., June 13, 1884---J. R. Reeves, Mayor and Editor of the Union County "Optic", and Lloyd Ford a good for nothing desperado had an altercation yesterday about the Congressional contest for the Democratic nomination. Revolvers were drawn, and each shot five times. Ford was shot in the breast and killed. One of the bullets from his pistol struck Squire Reeves, the father of J. R. Reeves, inflicting a flesh wound in the leg.
Father: Thomas Ford
Born: March 1832 in Tennessee
Died: 3 May 1906 Union County, Ms
Mother: Lucinda Catherine Nelson
Born: 1839 in Tippah County, Ms
Siblings:
Melvina Ford
1864-1940
William Ford
1866
Reuben Dale Ford
1868-1948
George Ford
1871
Thomas Ford
1872
Maude Ford
1875
Frank Ford
1878
Chester Dare Ford
1881-1953
FATAL DUEL IN MISSISSIPPI
New Albany, Miss., June 13, 1884---J. R. Reeves, Mayor and Editor of the Union County "Optic", and Lloyd Ford a good for nothing desperado had an altercation yesterday about the Congressional contest for the Democratic nomination. Revolvers were drawn, and each shot five times. Ford was shot in the breast and killed. One of the bullets from his pistol struck Squire Reeves, the father of J. R. Reeves, inflicting a flesh wound in the leg.
Father: Thomas Ford
Born: March 1832 in Tennessee
Died: 3 May 1906 Union County, Ms
Mother: Lucinda Catherine Nelson
Born: 1839 in Tippah County, Ms
Siblings:
Melvina Ford
1864-1940
William Ford
1866
Reuben Dale Ford
1868-1948
George Ford
1871
Thomas Ford
1872
Maude Ford
1875
Frank Ford
1878
Chester Dare Ford
1881-1953
New Albany, Miss., June 13, 1884---J. R. Reeves, Mayor and Editor of the Union County "Optic", and Lloyd Ford a good for nothing desperado had an altercation yesterday about the Congressional contest for the Democratic nomination. Revolvers were drawn, and each shot five times. Ford was shot in the breast and killed. One of the bullets from his pistol struck Squire Reeves, the father of J. R. Reeves, inflicting a flesh wound in the leg.
Father: Thomas Ford
Born: March 1832 in Tennessee
Died: 3 May 1906 Union County, Ms
Mother: Lucinda Catherine Nelson
Born: 1839 in Tippah County, Ms
Siblings:
Melvina Ford
1864-1940
William Ford
1866
Reuben Dale Ford
1868-1948
George Ford
1871
Thomas Ford
1872
Maude Ford
1875
Frank Ford
1878
Chester Dare Ford
1881-1953
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