Thanks much for this obit. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy & Jerry Thompson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:17 AM Subject: [MOMILLER] Bilyeu/Maylee - death notice The Iberia Sentinel, June 1936 Everett Bilyeu (spelled Belyeu on the death certificate), 52, > farmer of near St. Anthony, was shot by Everett Stark, his neighbor, at > noon Sunday and died almost instantly from a charge of No. 2 shot fired at > close range from a 10-gauge double-barrel shotgun. The charge struck > Bilyeu just below the heart and tore a two-inch hole in Bilyeu's abdomen, > death coming > almost instantly. > > Stark and Bilyeu lived on the same farm, the Taylor Shelton > place. Stark at the old building down on Wimmer Creek and Bilyeu at the > log house on that part of the farm known as the George Clark place, which > had, in recent years, been purchased and added to the larger creek farm. > > According to information available, Stark and his wife had on > various occasions in the past, been quarreling. On Saturday, Mrs. Stark > left her home and went on the hill to the Bilyeu house. Later in the > night, Stark came to the Bilyeu home and demanded that Bilyeu give him a > gun which belonged to Mr. Shelton. Bilyeu refused, and Stark claims that > Bilyeu fired the gun at him as he was in the act of entering his car, a > number of the shot striking the car, but not injuring Stark. > > Then early Sunday morning Stark came up to the Bilyeu home and > both parties apologized. Later the same morning Bilyeu took with him a > bucket of scraps to feed his dog which he had loaned to Stark, and went > down to the Stark home. This was the last time Bilyeu's family saw him > alive. > > About 12:30 Stark approached the home of a neighbor, Joe M. > Bax, and told him that he had shot Bilyeu, and said he wanted to call > Frank Burks of Iberia, deputy sheriff, and give up. Burks then called > Sheriff Lafe King, who went to the scene of the tragedy. > > Sheriff King found the body of Bilyeu lying in a draw between > the garage and the machinery shed. He was lying on his back, his right > hand over his head and clutching his cap, while at his side was a > pitchfork and near his feet was the bucket of scraps, undisturbed. There > were no eye-witnesses to the shooting. > > Stark told the Sheriff that Bilyeu threatened him with a pitchfork, > and that he fired while standing on the approach to the garage, which was > a distance of about eight or ten feet from Bilyeu. > King said further that Stark had phoned to him Saturday night > asking him to come down and settle a family quarrel, but that he had > refused to do so unless Stark would issue a warrant. > > Stark was brought to Tuscumbia and lodged in jail awaiting this > report of the Coroner, Dr. J.R. Ellison. The inquest will be held at St. > Elizabeth Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock of this week. > > The body of the victim was taken to Iberia by Adams & Casey, > undertakers and burial was held at the Bilyeu Cemetery Tuesday morning at > 10 o'clock. > > Bilyeu was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Bilyeu and was born > and reared on Humphrey's Creek, eight miles east of Tuscumbia. He was > married (his wife being a daughter of John Maylee), and they had three or > four children, one son being in CCC camp in California. John and Arthur > Bilyeu of the Humphrey's Creek community, and Sgt. Roscoe Bilyeu, > instructor > in the Army school at Ft. Benning, Ga. are brothers. > > > >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >