FYI - Lynchburg, TN is the home of Jack Daniels Whiskey - the old 'still' and the little town are now tourist attractions - Fayetteville is a great little town just over the TN line from AL - since these men were working in a wheat field, is it possible they were working for Jack Daniels - maybe looking into the history of the Jack Daniels Distillery might have something about the incident. delilah At 22:17 7/31/00 -0500, you wrote: >(cross-posting to a number of lists, sorry for any duplication) > >This is both an unsolved mystery (disappearance) and a brickwall - both >forward and backwards! I hope I am not wrong in posting to both lists. I >am including all of the relevant info, in the hopes that someone may be >able to shed some light on this - or point me in directions to go - or >perhaps recognize their own ancester in the following! > >100 YEARS AGO, AUGUST 1, 1900 > >Harvey L. BOLIN killed Charlie Walter WHITE near Lynchburg, TN. > >Details follow. Hope someone, somewhere, can tell me more! THE MANHUNT IS >ON!!!!! > >Various Bolin families who may be linked to Harvey have ties into Moore, >Franklin, Lincoln, Giles, Bedford, & Coffee Counties in TN, and Limestone >and Madison Counties, AL. > >Seeking more info on this incident and the personages (both major and >minor) involved, but most especially trying to find out more about Harvey - >his parents, and what happened to him after this event. > >Please read on. I will let the documents I have found tell the story. > > >========================= >_The Fayetteville Observer_ newspaper >Fayetteville, Lincoln Co. TN >Vol. XLVII No. 30, August 9, 1900, p. 3 col. 1 read: > >MURDER IN MOORE COUNTY > >Lynchburg, Tenn., Aug. 1 - This morning about 7 o'clock Harde Bowling >waylaid and shot Charley White near the latter's home in the 7th district >of this county. White was returning to his home from a wheat field some >distance away, and it is charged that Bowling met him and opened fire on >him with a Winchester. After shooting him once, Bowling is said to have run >after him a hundred yards or more, firing as he ran. Six shots were fired >in all, four of them taking effect. > >The killing is the result of a difficulty between the men which occurred >yesterday morning in a field, in which they were working together. White >accused Bowling of striking him with a pitchfork, and Bowling denied it. >White called him a liar, and Bowling returned the imputation. White struck >him with a pitchfork, breaking it. They were parted by friends. > >Bowling has not been arrested. > >============================= >_The Weekly Mercury_ newspaper >Huntsville, Madison Co., ALA >Aug. 8, 1900 p. 3 col. 5 > >MURDERED AT LYNCHBURG >Chas. N. White Killed By a Former Huntsville Man > >News has been received in this city by the sheriff and the police force, >from Sheriff Woodward, of Moore county, that Chas. W. White was shot and >instantly killed by Hardy Bolin, in Moore county, near Lynchburg last >Wednesday. > >The murderer formerly lived north of Huntsville, near the county line. > >Deput Sheriff Robert Phillips left yesterday afternoon for the above place >to apprehend the escaped murderer, who is thought to be enroute to his >fathers home who lives at Lynchburg. It is stated that White was murdered >by Bolin in cold blood. > >========================= >_The Limestone Democrat_ newspaper >Athens, Limestone County, AL >Aug. 18, 1900 p. 4 col. 1 >wasn't as detailed, or as accurate, in their reporting: > >FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY >News has reached Huntsville that Henry Bolin was shot and killed by C.W. >White near Lynchburg, Tenn. > > >======================== > >Moore County, TN >County Court Clerk Minute Book >Vol. 5, p. 561 >Monday, Oct. 1, 1900 > >Inquest of Charlie White as follows: > >W.A. Waggoner, Coroner 5.00 >Dr. J. N. Taylor, Phisician 5.00 > > Jury >Samuel McDowell one day 1.00 >Jas Silvertooth " " 1.00 >S.L. Haslitt " " 1.00 >Jim Pierce " " 1.00 >E. W. Sebastian " " 1.00 >D.C. Allen " " 1.00 >Henry Waggoner " " 1.00 >W.A. Foster serving subpeonas 2.75 > > Witness in above case >William Woodard Sr. .50 >William Woodard Jr. .50 >Mrs. Mit Woodard .50 >Asberry Allen .50 >Henry Stone .50 >Will Solloman .50 >Jeff Chapman .50 >Henry Pierce .50 > ------------------- > $23.75 > > > > >================================ > >Moore County, TN >County Court Clerk Minute Book >Vol. 6, p. 5 >Monday, January 7, 1901 > >On motion of J. T. Bickley which met with a Second and was carried by a >vote of a majority of the magistrates present that a reward of Twenty five >Dollars $25.00 be offered by the County of Moore for the arrest and >delivery of Harvey Bolin to the Sheriff or Moore County at Lynchburg, >Tennessee. Said Bolin being charged with the murder of one Charley W. White. >And the chairman is authorized to issue his warrant in payment of said >reward when said Bolin is so delivered. > > >============================ > >As far as I can tell, Harvey Bolin never was apprehended. We truly have no >idea what happened to him after the murder. Family tales and stories from >"old timers" in the area said he hid out at his father's house a few days, >near Lynchburg, and then together they walked to Alabama. The old timers >said they thought his father was Will Bolin (son of Jeremiah), but I've >found nothing definitive on this. Will Bolin (son of Jeremiah) did go to >Alabama and work in the Merrimack Mill in Huntsville sometime after 1900, >and died there in 1931. His obituary does not mention having a son, >Harvey. At this point, I consider the link to Will Bolin (son of Jeremiah) >to be speculative, at best. >Other rumors said after making his escape to Alabama, Harvey may have gone >to Texas, Oklahoma, or elsewhere "out West." Some stories even said that >Harvey was killed in a gunfight somewhere out west. Others said he turned >himself in. My grandfather seems to recall visiting a prison or some other >institution as a child, where he thought his older brother told him that >his dad (Harvey) was there. But that could just be a prank of an older >brother upon a gullible younger brother. Both sons claim to have seen an >obituary sometime in 1930s-1950s time period, which ran in their respective >hometown newspapers (Nashville, TN and Fort Smith or Little Rock, >Arkansas), announcing the death of a Bolin that they thought must be their >father - who was somehow wanting to let them know of his passing. How much >is truth, fiction, or just wishful thinking in all of this is impossible to >discern. > >Harvey's life before the murder is almost as difficult to track as it is >after the murder. H.L. Bolin married Miss Alma Pierce in January 1895 in >Moore County, with W.C. Wagster as witness. (I have no idea who Wagster >is, or what, if any relationship, he is - though I have often heard it said >that witnesses to weddings were nearly always kin.) >Harvey appears, at age 26, on the 1900 Moore County census with his wife, >Alma, and two boys, Chester Carl and Dewey Hobson. According to the census, >Harvey was born in Nov. 1874. >There is a 7 year old Harvey in the household of Pinkney and Elizabeth >Bolin in Lincoln County TN in 1880 - close enough to the right age for my >Harvey, but no relationships are given. There is a young woman, Fanny >Bolin, age 28, who might be his mother, in the same household. But his >parents remain a mystery. > >Complicating matters further, Thomas G. Bolin has a son named Harvey, 19 >years old, in his household in the 1900 Limestone County ALA census. I >believe that many of the post-murder stories about Harvey, may in fact be >about this man, instead. > >Still other family members claim a P.J. Bolin (son of Pinkney and Elizabeth >- or perhaps Pinkney and Elizabeth themselves) had a son, Harvey, b. 1868, >but this 1868 Harvey seems to be missing from the 1870-1900 censuses - at >least I haven't found him yet. It is this 1868 Harvey who married Nora >McDaniel prior to 1900 in Limestone Co. ALA, and then moved to Kosse, Texas. >I think some researchers assume that the 7 yr old Harvey in Pinkney & >Elizabeth's household in 1880 is this same Harvey - with a woefully wrong >age (1868 Harvey would have been 12 yrs old! in 1880!!) - but I think it >more likely that he is my 1874 Harvey, who would be closer to the >appropriate age. But there's still nothing there to tell us who his >parents were. > > >ANYONE out there EVER HEARD OF "MY" HARVEY (b. 1874)?????? He's definitely >one of those mysterious ancestors, who just literally disappear. > >ANY tidbit of information appreciated!!! > >**PLEASE REPLY TO ME DIRECTLY, in addition to any list where this was >posted; I've oversubscribed myself, and will have to be leaving some lists >soon.*** > >Thanks for any help, advice, or INFO!!!!! > >Linda B. >battg2@grapevine.net > >LOOKING FOR THESE TN ANCESTORS: >In Franklin, Moore, Lincoln, Bedford Counties: >BOLIN, PIERCE, WOODARD, MASSEY, WEST > >I'm A New Lamb in the >International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists! >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/index.html > > > > > > >==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== >Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > >============================== >Ancestry.com now has more than 200,000 subscribers! To celebrate, >access to ALL of Ancestry.com will be free from July 18 to July 31! >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/freepromo.asp?sourcecode=A11AM > >