My Brick Wall is William J. LaVARRE (Sr.). I have his descendant information but am trying to discover where he came from, and when he was born. (his ancestry). I haven't found him in the 1860 or 1870 censuses (searching GA and elsewhere) He appears by 1872/3 to marry Jennie ANDREWS (b. 1842) and he's dead by April 1876. He lives outside the city limits with his wife and sons Ollie (b. 1973) and William Jr. (b. 1876) so I haven't succeeded in finding him in city directories. Jennie and Ollie are buried at Rose Hill Cemetery. William Jr. went on to have a life I know a lot about, leaving Macon in 1896 and returning after 1930. He died there in 1945 and was buried by Hart's Mortuary. ------------ From The Macon Telegraph and Messenger, dated Tuesday, April 18, 1876, p. 4 col. 1 Shocking Homicide in Twiggs On Saturday last about noon an employee at Myrick's Mill, by the name of William LAVARRE, was shot and instantly killed by John EDMUNSON, a young man about 17 or 18 years of age, under the following circumstances: A short time previous to the killing EDMONDSON had had some words, and perhaps blows, with LAVARRE in relation to soem matters pertaining to the mill business, LAVARRE refusing to fight him on account of his youth. On Saturday, a great crowd gathered at the mill, in consequence of a break in the dam, to catch fish, EDMONSON, being one of the number. LAVARRE apprehending no trouble while on his way to his dinner was hailed by EDMONDSON. Seeing that he was under the influence of liquor LAVARRE paid no attention to his call and continued on his way to his dwelling, only a short distance off. Whereupon EDMONDSON drew his pistol and before he could prevented fired at LAVARRE, the ball striking him in the back of the head, close to the ear, and killing him on the spot in full presence of his wife, who was waiting for him in the door of her house. The community is very much incensed and the murderer would have been severely dealt with but for the fact that he immediately took to the swamp and has not yet been apprehended. His widow is the daughter of the late Dr. L.F.W. ANDREWS, and formerly the widow of Charles ROSS, who died in Texas some time ago. ------------ Christina Auch theauchs@adelphia.net http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~familiesacrosstime/