In a message dated 02/01/2001 10:01:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, OZMENT-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << > 1)1850 Hinds Co, MS census: > > Thomas Osment, 30, MD, clerk in household of W. H. Allen, merchant I wonder if this is the Ozment who murdered a Catrup in a MD bar room brawl and left town. Evelyn > > Hinds County Cemeteries: > > Thomas R. Ozment, b. Easton, MD, 21 May 1814 > d. 30 Oct 1851, Hinds Co, MS > Buried at Greenwood City Cemetery, Jackson, MS >> This appears to be Thomas B. Ozment a native of Talbot Co., MD who "stabbed to death" John A. Catrop "in an altercation on Friday night (8 Sept. 1848)". SOURCES: (1)9 Sept.. 1848 Easton Gazette, and (2) a letter written to himself "beginning in March 1850" in the biograpy of Lemon John Catrop describing the incident involving his great-uncle. This original work is at the The Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. The purported cause of this fight is another story! 9 Dec. 1848 Easton Gazette stated -"Thomas B. Ozment, a native of Talbot County but now of Mississippi, accused of the murder of John A. Catrop, was acquitted by a jury last Saturday at the county court". This information was in a letter to me from Bernice Leonard, historian and author of several books, St. Michaels, MD, who's daughter-in-law is related to John (A)lexander Catrop. Mrs. Leonard added : "What makes this affair even more tragic is that these two men may have been related; since a marriage between 'an' Elizabeth Catrop and Henry Ozment took place in Talbot Co, 11 April 1797". Thomas B. Ozment most likely is the same Thomas Ozment buried in Jackson, MS in 1851. Dwight W. Ozment Richmond, VA