This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/920.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you very much for your reply. My name is Al Moore (Albert Lamar Moore III). I was born in Clarksdale, Ms, in 1948 and have been living in New Mexico since 1971. My grandfather was Albert Lamar Moore, son of Ella M. Yeager, daughter of Jack and Mary Yeager. Jack and Mary were my g-g grandparents. Allie Yeager, son of George and Minnie, would be my third cousin. Allie Lamar Yeager died February 17, 1892, one day after his sixteenth birthday and is buried in the Thomastown Baptist Cemetery next to his grandmother, Mary Ann Martin Yeager. My Grandfather Albert (Allie's first cousin) was born February 19. The generally accepted year of his birth (death certificate and grave marker) is 1895; however there is a 1910 census for the Moore family (John James, Ella and children) when they lived in Ackerman that lists my grandfather at the age of 18 which would put his birthdate two days after Allie was killed. Whether it is 1892 or 1895, while I do not believe that I was named directly after Allie Lamar Yeager, I do belive John and Ella (Allie's uncle and aunt) named my grandfather after Allie; hence, my grandparents named my father after my grandfather and I am named after my father; therefore my name derives from Allie Lamar Yeager. While researching the roots of my name, I came acroos a newspaper article in the Carthaginian (Cartharge, Ms) relating the events of February 17, 1892 Feb 19-Information has been received here of an assasination which occurred a few miles south of Thomastown, in Leake County, in which a young man named Yeager was waylaid and instantly killed by a schoolmate named Fowler. They had a misunderstanding at school and after returning home Yeager, accompanied by a negro boy, was out turkey hunting, and Fowler secreted himslef in the woods and fired on Yeager with the above results. The murderer is still at large but is being pursued by friends of the dead boy. The Carthaginian, June 9, 1893, relates: FOWLER ACQUITTED Canton, May 31-Argument in the case of the State against Willie Fowler, the seventeen year old boy who killed his schooolmate, Allie Yeager, about the same age in February last, was begun this morning at 9 o'clock. The state was represented by District Attorney Spencer Hudson, assisted by Mr. Jas. Hamblin. The defense was represented by Downs and Ward and C. B. Graves. Eloquent and able speeches were made on both sides and the case was given to the jury at 1:30 o'clock. After being locked up for three hours and a half the jury came into the court and rendered a verdict of not guilty. Quite a bositerous demonstartion was made which was promptly suppressed by the sheriff and condemned by Judge Chrisman. The last newspaper article I have found involving the people connected to the events of February 17, 1892 is from the Kosciusko Star, March 1, 1895: Willie Fowler Again Canton, Miss, Feb 22-Willie Fowler, an eighteen year old boy near Camden in this county was brought in this morning and put in jail. Wednesday he took a Winchester rifle and was out terrorizing everyone he met and when he went home at night his father took the gun from him and concealed it. Willie was very much enraged and threatened the whole family if the gun was not brought forth. Thursday he got the rifle and left home but returned in the afternoon and inquired for the old man, threatening to shoot him on sight. The old man got a shotgun and prepared to defend himself but just at that moment some neighbors who had heard Willie's threats arrived and took the rifle from him thereby preventing a terrible tragedy. Willie Fowler is the boy who last spring a year ago killed Yeager, and after a tedious trial, acquitted. He is now supposed to be insane. I only began researching this around 2001 and, unfortunately, I have had to rely on newspaper articles . You are the first person (outside my Aunt and myself) that knows anything about Allie Lamar Yeager and I would love to share everything you have and I have about Allie and the Yeager family. Thank you again for your reply- Al Moore allielamar@aol.com