The Blount County News-Dispatch, 29 Jul 1897 Killing At Nectar. A reported reached here on Saturday, that Deputy Sheriff W.D. Tidmore had shot and killed John Thomason at Nectar. We have not learned the particulars. The following is the report of the Coroner's jury: "We the jury find that John Thomason came to his death by being shot with a gun or pistol in the hands of W.D. Tidmore, on the night of July 22d, 1897." The Southern Democrat 29 Jul 1897 News reached here on Saturday that Deputy Sheriff W.D. Tidmore had shot and killed John Thomason at Tidmore, in this county. Sheriff Sanders went to the scene Saturday and found the report correct. The report is that Thomason was under arrest for vagrancy and made an effort to escape and was shot down by the Deputy. There was no eye witness to the shooting but a Mr. Man was near by and heard the report of the gun and went to the scene of the shooting and found no one present but Tidmore and the dying man. Tidmore has left, but it is believed that he will return. The Blount County News-Dispatch, 5 Aug 1897 The killing of John Thomason by deputy Sheriff Wm. Tidmore who had had him under arrest charged with a misdemeanor was a deplorable affair. Tidmore was of a quiet and peaceable disposition and not the kind of man to shoot without provocation. He left immediately after the shooting and no one knows his version of the affair, but his friends think that in the darkness, supposing his prisoner was attempting to escape he fired his pistol to frighten him into submission and accidentally hit him. The Blount County News-Dispatch, 12 Aug 1897 Commissioner's Court-Synopsis of the Proceedings. Bain Brothers were allowed $3.40 for goods for burial of Millie Smith, a pauper. F.F. Wynn and J.E. Green were allowed $6 for clothes and coffin for John Thomason. J.A. Brice was allowed $9.69 for goods to bury Mrs. Stanford, a pauper. The Southern Democrat, 19 Aug 1897 It is reported that Deputy Sheriff Tidmore, who is charged with killing John Thomason near Nectar a few weeks ago, will surrender to the Sheriff in a few days and stand his trial. The Blount County News-Dispatch, 19 Aug 1897 Deputy Sheriff W.D. Tidmore, who is charged with the killing of John Thomason at Nectar, has surrendered to the authorities. The Blount County News-Dispatch, 26 Aug 1897 William Tidmore, chief deputy in the Eastern Division for Sheriff Sanders, surrendered to the officers last week and had his preliminary hearing before 'Squire Manson Walker on the charge of killing John Thomason while the latter a prisoner in Tidmore's custody under a charge of vagrancy. Tidmore was released under $2,000 bail. Thomason leaves a wife and children. Notes: No other newpaper notes were found regarding the death of John Thomason. Blount County marriage records show where John Thomas married Sarah E. Best on 3 Jan 1892. No monuments were found in Blount County for John Thomason. The widowed Sarah Thomason was enumerated on the 1900 Blount County Federal census. She was born Nov 1873, with Albert J. (Nov 1892), Yaner M. (Mar 1895), and James O. (Dec 1896). Albert J. Thomas married Ida; they are buried in the High Rock Methodist Cemetery. William D. Tidmore married Frances O. Henderson 16 Jan 1879 in Blount County. William was born 3 Dec 1856 and died 9 May 1944; Francis (Fannie) was born 28 May 1862 and died 23 Apr 1938. They are buried in the cemetery at Nectar. William was son of Maximillian Tidmore, who at one time wasCaptain of Company C of the 28th Alabama Infantry, CSA.