Good Evening!!! When I find my copy of the letter written by the Thompson girl where she describes the death of Thompson Maupin I will e-mail it to those who wish to read it. The fact about the death of the soldier who shot Thompson was from the book by Dr. Michael Beshore who was married to Ann Maupin sister to John Rice Maupin. The story was told to the I believe by Jesse and Frank James. Well, will try and get all this together for those of you who wish to hear the details. William ----- Original Message ----- From: James Watson <jdwatson@erols.com> To: <MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:53 AM Subject: [MAUPIN-L] Reunion Chatter > Okay, I'm going to tell this the way I think that I heard it at the > reunion, but do not hold me to the truth of it. I heard bits & pieces > from several different people, so maybe someone knows the truth. > > John Rice and his brothers James & Thompson (who was called Tom) rode > with Quantrill. Apparently at some point, a union guy shot Tom in the > leg. As he begged for his life (I'm not sure if that's exact), the union > guy shot him in the head. Then John Rice hunted down the union guy and > here is where there were 2 versions I heard: > > 1) while two of the brothers held him, the 3d cut off his head > > 2) john rice hunted him down, cut of his head, and put it on a stick. > > Does anyone know what actually happened? > > Love, Denise > > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> >