Cenotaph here: George Heaton
(Brenham Weekly Banner - Brenham, Texas, April 19, 1878)
Geo. Heaton, a highly respectable farmer, of Falls county, was assasinated on the prairie near his home. He was riding up to a herd of his horses when an unknown man rode up behind him and shot him in the back killing him instantly.
(Keithsburg News - April 18, 1878)
The general inquiry and numerous rumors about the death of George Heaton, seems to demand that we should give all the information we have in relation to the unfortunate affair. The newspapers are full of reports and many opinions are given. It is stated in the St. Louis Republican that George quareled with the Walker boys about some stock he had purchased of "Mammy" Walker, (as she was called) an old lady who had a large family of trifling sons. This is not true. George never quarreled with any man, and especially that class of men.
It is true he bought 500 head of cattle of "Mammy" Walker, after she had insisted on selling her stock to him. He had bought this stock once before and she had backed out, and the laws of Texas did not recognize a woman as a respossible party, the trade could not be made binding. Her object in selling, she said, was that her sons were stealing her cattle and squandering her property. These boys had threatened their mother, and any one that would buy her stock. This is probably the reason that suspicion attaches to the Walkers. They had waylaid him on his road from town a few weeks before and he had been warned not to cross at a certain ford. But having his revolver in hand he boldly met them, ___ in number, they seeing he was prepared no attack was made and there was no quarrel. All this throws suspicion on them, but the fact that he was shot in the back, the pistol being so close to him that the powder burned his clothes, leads us to believe that it was done by no one that he suspected. George was a prudent as well as a brave man, and a man who had threatened his life could never get that advantage.
A boy who was herding the horses near the tank ran to him when he fell from his favorite horse, "Ku Kluk," and that boy testified that he asked him what was the matter and was told that he was shot, and that George asked him to bring him some water, which he did, from the tank, in his hat; after which the boy asked him who shot him and George replied that "it was a black man riding a light colored horse."
Now we know that George never said that. A man never changes his usual form of expression under such circumstances, and had the boy, Lowe, told that truth at the inquest, he put his answer in different words from the ones George used. George would have said "it was a nigger riding a dun horse," or bay, or sorrel horse, as the case may be.
The curious action of George Walker, who went out on the prairies to deliver the horses his mother sold to Geo. Heaton, remains to be explained. They were only out two hours and Walker, by some means, got back to his mother's house and was on the balcony, or upper porch, and saw the shooting and fall from the horse and immediately went to him.
Now, what puzzles us is, the advantage taken when he was suspicious of these men. They could not have done it had he been armed.
(Keithsburg News - April 25, 1878)
The death of Mr. George Heaton is a shock to the community, or at least to all those acquainted with him, and they are many. Mr. Heaton was a citizen of Falls county, but well known in this, and was hot by an unknown man on Tuesday about seven miles from Marlin while riding near a herd of horses. Mr. Heaton came into this section seven or eight years ago from Illinois, and at once stepped to the front in all stock raisers organizations for the purpose of protection against and the prosecution of thieves and all those disposed to handle stock unlawfully, he being extensively engaged in stock raising. The supposition is, and doubtless true, that he has been killed by some of the latter class, to whom he had given offense. Sheriff Ross, Constable Clarence Williams and Mr. Bart Moore have gone down to assist the authorities of Falls in hunting for the perpetrator of the murder, of whom nothing could be heard up to the present writing, except that he steathily rode up behind Mr. Heaton and shot him, and then disappeared - Waco (Texas) Register.
Sheriff Ross and Mr. Bart, Moore returned from Falls county, Friday evening, but bringing no additional news regarding the Heaton assassination. No arrests have been made, nor is it positively known who the assassin is. In the Big Creek neighborhood, where Mr. Heaton was killed, suspicion rests upon one Abner Walker as the murderer. Walker has either left the country or is concealed; but all the evidence against him is circumstantial. The only persons who saw the killing are two little boys, nephews of Abner Walker, and they say a negro did the deed. The citizens are very indignant over the murder. - Waco Register.
(Keithsburg News - August 15, 1878)
Webster & Williams, of the Muscatine Marble Works, put up a monument last Friday, for the late Geo. Heaton, in the Keithsburg cemetery. The work is fully up to the high reputation of the firm for good, substantial work as well as fine art. The foundation is of Sagetown rock, four feet in the ground, the base is of Joliet lime stone 3 feet square. The plinth of Scotch Granite highly polished. The died, or column, of Knoxville marble which is susceptible of a very high finish and is truly a beautiful piece of workmanship. The cap which projects over the die is of Scotch granite with a grey Irish granite die surmounted by a Knoxville marble urn. The whole design is new. The cost of the monument, we learn from Mr. Webster, who superintended the work, is $450.00.
(Brenham Weekly Banner - Brenham, Texas, April 19, 1878)
Geo. Heaton, a highly respectable farmer, of Falls county, was assasinated on the prairie near his home. He was riding up to a herd of his horses when an unknown man rode up behind him and shot him in the back killing him instantly.
(Keithsburg News - April 18, 1878)
The general inquiry and numerous rumors about the death of George Heaton, seems to demand that we should give all the information we have in relation to the unfortunate affair. The newspapers are full of reports and many opinions are given. It is stated in the St. Louis Republican that George quareled with the Walker boys about some stock he had purchased of "Mammy" Walker, (as she was called) an old lady who had a large family of trifling sons. This is not true. George never quarreled with any man, and especially that class of men.
It is true he bought 500 head of cattle of "Mammy" Walker, after she had insisted on selling her stock to him. He had bought this stock once before and she had backed out, and the laws of Texas did not recognize a woman as a respossible party, the trade could not be made binding. Her object in selling, she said, was that her sons were stealing her cattle and squandering her property. These boys had threatened their mother, and any one that would buy her stock. This is probably the reason that suspicion attaches to the Walkers. They had waylaid him on his road from town a few weeks before and he had been warned not to cross at a certain ford. But having his revolver in hand he boldly met them, ___ in number, they seeing he was prepared no attack was made and there was no quarrel. All this throws suspicion on them, but the fact that he was shot in the back, the pistol being so close to him that the powder burned his clothes, leads us to believe that it was done by no one that he suspected. George was a prudent as well as a brave man, and a man who had threatened his life could never get that advantage.
A boy who was herding the horses near the tank ran to him when he fell from his favorite horse, "Ku Kluk," and that boy testified that he asked him what was the matter and was told that he was shot, and that George asked him to bring him some water, which he did, from the tank, in his hat; after which the boy asked him who shot him and George replied that "it was a black man riding a light colored horse."
Now we know that George never said that. A man never changes his usual form of expression under such circumstances, and had the boy, Lowe, told that truth at the inquest, he put his answer in different words from the ones George used. George would have said "it was a nigger riding a dun horse," or bay, or sorrel horse, as the case may be.
The curious action of George Walker, who went out on the prairies to deliver the horses his mother sold to Geo. Heaton, remains to be explained. They were only out two hours and Walker, by some means, got back to his mother's house and was on the balcony, or upper porch, and saw the shooting and fall from the horse and immediately went to him.
Now, what puzzles us is, the advantage taken when he was suspicious of these men. They could not have done it had he been armed.
(Keithsburg News - April 25, 1878)
The death of Mr. George Heaton is a shock to the community, or at least to all those acquainted with him, and they are many. Mr. Heaton was a citizen of Falls county, but well known in this, and was hot by an unknown man on Tuesday about seven miles from Marlin while riding near a herd of horses. Mr. Heaton came into this section seven or eight years ago from Illinois, and at once stepped to the front in all stock raisers organizations for the purpose of protection against and the prosecution of thieves and all those disposed to handle stock unlawfully, he being extensively engaged in stock raising. The supposition is, and doubtless true, that he has been killed by some of the latter class, to whom he had given offense. Sheriff Ross, Constable Clarence Williams and Mr. Bart Moore have gone down to assist the authorities of Falls in hunting for the perpetrator of the murder, of whom nothing could be heard up to the present writing, except that he steathily rode up behind Mr. Heaton and shot him, and then disappeared - Waco (Texas) Register.
Sheriff Ross and Mr. Bart, Moore returned from Falls county, Friday evening, but bringing no additional news regarding the Heaton assassination. No arrests have been made, nor is it positively known who the assassin is. In the Big Creek neighborhood, where Mr. Heaton was killed, suspicion rests upon one Abner Walker as the murderer. Walker has either left the country or is concealed; but all the evidence against him is circumstantial. The only persons who saw the killing are two little boys, nephews of Abner Walker, and they say a negro did the deed. The citizens are very indignant over the murder. - Waco Register.
(Keithsburg News - August 15, 1878)
Webster & Williams, of the Muscatine Marble Works, put up a monument last Friday, for the late Geo. Heaton, in the Keithsburg cemetery. The work is fully up to the high reputation of the firm for good, substantial work as well as fine art. The foundation is of Sagetown rock, four feet in the ground, the base is of Joliet lime stone 3 feet square. The plinth of Scotch Granite highly polished. The died, or column, of Knoxville marble which is susceptible of a very high finish and is truly a beautiful piece of workmanship. The cap which projects over the die is of Scotch granite with a grey Irish granite die surmounted by a Knoxville marble urn. The whole design is new. The cost of the monument, we learn from Mr. Webster, who superintended the work, is $450.00.
Cenotaph here: George Heaton
(Brenham Weekly Banner - Brenham, Texas, April 19, 1878)
Geo. Heaton, a highly respectable farmer, of Falls county, was assasinated on the prairie near his home. He was riding up to a herd of his horses when an unknown man rode up behind him and shot him in the back killing him instantly.
(Keithsburg News - April 18, 1878)
The general inquiry and numerous rumors about the death of George Heaton, seems to demand that we should give all the information we have in relation to the unfortunate affair. The newspapers are full of reports and many opinions are given. It is stated in the St. Louis Republican that George quareled with the Walker boys about some stock he had purchased of "Mammy" Walker, (as she was called) an old lady who had a large family of trifling sons. This is not true. George never quarreled with any man, and especially that class of men.
It is true he bought 500 head of cattle of "Mammy" Walker, after she had insisted on selling her stock to him. He had bought this stock once before and she had backed out, and the laws of Texas did not recognize a woman as a respossible party, the trade could not be made binding. Her object in selling, she said, was that her sons were stealing her cattle and squandering her property. These boys had threatened their mother, and any one that would buy her stock. This is probably the reason that suspicion attaches to the Walkers. They had waylaid him on his road from town a few weeks before and he had been warned not to cross at a certain ford. But having his revolver in hand he boldly met them, ___ in number, they seeing he was prepared no attack was made and there was no quarrel. All this throws suspicion on them, but the fact that he was shot in the back, the pistol being so close to him that the powder burned his clothes, leads us to believe that it was done by no one that he suspected. George was a prudent as well as a brave man, and a man who had threatened his life could never get that advantage.
A boy who was herding the horses near the tank ran to him when he fell from his favorite horse, "Ku Kluk," and that boy testified that he asked him what was the matter and was told that he was shot, and that George asked him to bring him some water, which he did, from the tank, in his hat; after which the boy asked him who shot him and George replied that "it was a black man riding a light colored horse."
Now we know that George never said that. A man never changes his usual form of expression under such circumstances, and had the boy, Lowe, told that truth at the inquest, he put his answer in different words from the ones George used. George would have said "it was a nigger riding a dun horse," or bay, or sorrel horse, as the case may be.
The curious action of George Walker, who went out on the prairies to deliver the horses his mother sold to Geo. Heaton, remains to be explained. They were only out two hours and Walker, by some means, got back to his mother's house and was on the balcony, or upper porch, and saw the shooting and fall from the horse and immediately went to him.
Now, what puzzles us is, the advantage taken when he was suspicious of these men. They could not have done it had he been armed.
(Keithsburg News - April 25, 1878)
The death of Mr. George Heaton is a shock to the community, or at least to all those acquainted with him, and they are many. Mr. Heaton was a citizen of Falls county, but well known in this, and was hot by an unknown man on Tuesday about seven miles from Marlin while riding near a herd of horses. Mr. Heaton came into this section seven or eight years ago from Illinois, and at once stepped to the front in all stock raisers organizations for the purpose of protection against and the prosecution of thieves and all those disposed to handle stock unlawfully, he being extensively engaged in stock raising. The supposition is, and doubtless true, that he has been killed by some of the latter class, to whom he had given offense. Sheriff Ross, Constable Clarence Williams and Mr. Bart Moore have gone down to assist the authorities of Falls in hunting for the perpetrator of the murder, of whom nothing could be heard up to the present writing, except that he steathily rode up behind Mr. Heaton and shot him, and then disappeared - Waco (Texas) Register.
Sheriff Ross and Mr. Bart, Moore returned from Falls county, Friday evening, but bringing no additional news regarding the Heaton assassination. No arrests have been made, nor is it positively known who the assassin is. In the Big Creek neighborhood, where Mr. Heaton was killed, suspicion rests upon one Abner Walker as the murderer. Walker has either left the country or is concealed; but all the evidence against him is circumstantial. The only persons who saw the killing are two little boys, nephews of Abner Walker, and they say a negro did the deed. The citizens are very indignant over the murder. - Waco Register.
(Keithsburg News - August 15, 1878)
Webster & Williams, of the Muscatine Marble Works, put up a monument last Friday, for the late Geo. Heaton, in the Keithsburg cemetery. The work is fully up to the high reputation of the firm for good, substantial work as well as fine art. The foundation is of Sagetown rock, four feet in the ground, the base is of Joliet lime stone 3 feet square. The plinth of Scotch Granite highly polished. The died, or column, of Knoxville marble which is susceptible of a very high finish and is truly a beautiful piece of workmanship. The cap which projects over the die is of Scotch granite with a grey Irish granite die surmounted by a Knoxville marble urn. The whole design is new. The cost of the monument, we learn from Mr. Webster, who superintended the work, is $450.00.
(Brenham Weekly Banner - Brenham, Texas, April 19, 1878)
Geo. Heaton, a highly respectable farmer, of Falls county, was assasinated on the prairie near his home. He was riding up to a herd of his horses when an unknown man rode up behind him and shot him in the back killing him instantly.
(Keithsburg News - April 18, 1878)
The general inquiry and numerous rumors about the death of George Heaton, seems to demand that we should give all the information we have in relation to the unfortunate affair. The newspapers are full of reports and many opinions are given. It is stated in the St. Louis Republican that George quareled with the Walker boys about some stock he had purchased of "Mammy" Walker, (as she was called) an old lady who had a large family of trifling sons. This is not true. George never quarreled with any man, and especially that class of men.
It is true he bought 500 head of cattle of "Mammy" Walker, after she had insisted on selling her stock to him. He had bought this stock once before and she had backed out, and the laws of Texas did not recognize a woman as a respossible party, the trade could not be made binding. Her object in selling, she said, was that her sons were stealing her cattle and squandering her property. These boys had threatened their mother, and any one that would buy her stock. This is probably the reason that suspicion attaches to the Walkers. They had waylaid him on his road from town a few weeks before and he had been warned not to cross at a certain ford. But having his revolver in hand he boldly met them, ___ in number, they seeing he was prepared no attack was made and there was no quarrel. All this throws suspicion on them, but the fact that he was shot in the back, the pistol being so close to him that the powder burned his clothes, leads us to believe that it was done by no one that he suspected. George was a prudent as well as a brave man, and a man who had threatened his life could never get that advantage.
A boy who was herding the horses near the tank ran to him when he fell from his favorite horse, "Ku Kluk," and that boy testified that he asked him what was the matter and was told that he was shot, and that George asked him to bring him some water, which he did, from the tank, in his hat; after which the boy asked him who shot him and George replied that "it was a black man riding a light colored horse."
Now we know that George never said that. A man never changes his usual form of expression under such circumstances, and had the boy, Lowe, told that truth at the inquest, he put his answer in different words from the ones George used. George would have said "it was a nigger riding a dun horse," or bay, or sorrel horse, as the case may be.
The curious action of George Walker, who went out on the prairies to deliver the horses his mother sold to Geo. Heaton, remains to be explained. They were only out two hours and Walker, by some means, got back to his mother's house and was on the balcony, or upper porch, and saw the shooting and fall from the horse and immediately went to him.
Now, what puzzles us is, the advantage taken when he was suspicious of these men. They could not have done it had he been armed.
(Keithsburg News - April 25, 1878)
The death of Mr. George Heaton is a shock to the community, or at least to all those acquainted with him, and they are many. Mr. Heaton was a citizen of Falls county, but well known in this, and was hot by an unknown man on Tuesday about seven miles from Marlin while riding near a herd of horses. Mr. Heaton came into this section seven or eight years ago from Illinois, and at once stepped to the front in all stock raisers organizations for the purpose of protection against and the prosecution of thieves and all those disposed to handle stock unlawfully, he being extensively engaged in stock raising. The supposition is, and doubtless true, that he has been killed by some of the latter class, to whom he had given offense. Sheriff Ross, Constable Clarence Williams and Mr. Bart Moore have gone down to assist the authorities of Falls in hunting for the perpetrator of the murder, of whom nothing could be heard up to the present writing, except that he steathily rode up behind Mr. Heaton and shot him, and then disappeared - Waco (Texas) Register.
Sheriff Ross and Mr. Bart, Moore returned from Falls county, Friday evening, but bringing no additional news regarding the Heaton assassination. No arrests have been made, nor is it positively known who the assassin is. In the Big Creek neighborhood, where Mr. Heaton was killed, suspicion rests upon one Abner Walker as the murderer. Walker has either left the country or is concealed; but all the evidence against him is circumstantial. The only persons who saw the killing are two little boys, nephews of Abner Walker, and they say a negro did the deed. The citizens are very indignant over the murder. - Waco Register.
(Keithsburg News - August 15, 1878)
Webster & Williams, of the Muscatine Marble Works, put up a monument last Friday, for the late Geo. Heaton, in the Keithsburg cemetery. The work is fully up to the high reputation of the firm for good, substantial work as well as fine art. The foundation is of Sagetown rock, four feet in the ground, the base is of Joliet lime stone 3 feet square. The plinth of Scotch Granite highly polished. The died, or column, of Knoxville marble which is susceptible of a very high finish and is truly a beautiful piece of workmanship. The cap which projects over the die is of Scotch granite with a grey Irish granite die surmounted by a Knoxville marble urn. The whole design is new. The cost of the monument, we learn from Mr. Webster, who superintended the work, is $450.00.
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