Seeking any info on KKK violence in southeastern Arkansas in 1880's-1890's, especially in Drew & Lincoln counties. Supposedly, my great great uncle, Thomas Lafayette Brown Jr. was killed in a gun battle near Tyro, Lincoln Co, Ark. on March 25, 1890 at age 28. One version of the story is that there was a big shootout at the “old Hoover place”near Tyro, date unknown. It’s said that a man was under guard by a sheriff's deputy in the man's house near Tyro...that Klansmen showed up late at night, then shot and killed the deputy and the man under guard; 3 Klamsmen supposedly also were shot. I don't know if Thomas may have been the deputy or the man under guard in his house. Some say it all started with a dispute over a woman (that one of the men involved had molested someone’s sister or sister-in-law, and possibly made her pregnant) Thomas left behind a widow, Frances "Fannie" Lay and two young sons, Thomas, Jr. and Charles Andrew Brown. Thomas Jr. married Annie G. Wilkins and 2nd married Velma Atkinson, all buried in Tyro cemetery. Charles Andrew went to Pine Bluff and married Inez Williams. One interesting note: Annie Wilkins was related to Andrew "Andy" Wilkins. A story handed down says, in the Tyro area, Andy got into a fight with some men, possibly Klansmen, shot and possibly killed two of them, and wounded another. Supposedly, Sam P. Johnson was one of the Klansmen killed, then buried on “the old Johnson place,” on the road from Tyro to Star City. I have seen several mentions online that “Andy Wilkins was killed,” but have no idea if that happened in the shootout at the “old Hoover place,” or at another time and place. Many thanks for any help proving any of this. Bill Brown in Dallas