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James Madison LeFors

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James Madison LeFors

Birth
Dade County, Missouri, USA
Death
25 Jan 1871 (aged 26–27)
Arkansas, USA
Burial
Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Born in Dade Co MO in 1844 son of John S Lefors & Martha Jane Inglish. While he was a child the family moved to Benton Co., Ark near Bloomfield. He married Amy Russell.

When he was in his 20's, James & his next younger brother Tom went to TX to engage in hauling. While there they visited their Grandmother Inglish at Sulphur Springs, TX in 1870.

James returned to Ark. One day he went to mill, & while he was sitting on a log waiting he was reading a letter from Tom to his father. A man by the name of Frank Sanders clubbed him over the head & killed him on 1/15/1871. No motive was ever produced for the murder. His father offered a reward & his uncle Whitfield Collins Lefors & other members of the family who were law officers tried to apprehend Sanders but he escaped perhaps to TX.

James wife had a child after his death.

The bloodstained letter is still in the possession of the descendants of his sister Sarah Elizabeth Lefors Hunt.
Born in Dade Co MO in 1844 son of John S Lefors & Martha Jane Inglish. While he was a child the family moved to Benton Co., Ark near Bloomfield. He married Amy Russell.

When he was in his 20's, James & his next younger brother Tom went to TX to engage in hauling. While there they visited their Grandmother Inglish at Sulphur Springs, TX in 1870.

James returned to Ark. One day he went to mill, & while he was sitting on a log waiting he was reading a letter from Tom to his father. A man by the name of Frank Sanders clubbed him over the head & killed him on 1/15/1871. No motive was ever produced for the murder. His father offered a reward & his uncle Whitfield Collins Lefors & other members of the family who were law officers tried to apprehend Sanders but he escaped perhaps to TX.

James wife had a child after his death.

The bloodstained letter is still in the possession of the descendants of his sister Sarah Elizabeth Lefors Hunt.

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was murdered by F A Sanders

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