This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sitton, Bobbitt, Darby Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4300 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. March 9, 1922. "SHOT IN CHEYENNE".-- Ora Sitton received a message Sunday stating that his brother, Jesse, a nightwatchman in the railroad yards at Cheyenne, Wyoming had been shot on Friday, passing away Saturday from the effects of wounds inflicted by a gun in the hands of a negro assassin. Jesse was a former Sidney boy, being the odlest son of Mr.and Mrs. John Sitton. He was married to Merle Bobbitt and the widow with one son morn his loss. Shortly after his marriage Jesse moved to western Nebraska where he served two terms as sheriff of his county. Burial was made in Cheyenne Tuesday morning. Further particulars regarding the negro who did the shooting has not been learned. N.B.: His father, John Harding Sitton, lived in Lacy Grove according to the D. D. Darby outline of the residents of that neighborhood. SEARCH with the words "Darbys outline" and scroll down to the 27th posting.--W.F.