I investigated a murder which occured in Mercer County in the same time frame. I went to the Recorders Office in the Mercer County Court House with names and approximate dates and found pages of records of the incident; the suspects--two women--the murdered man and all the gory details. The court proceedings from the arrests through to the hearings and the verdicts were written by hand. If I were you I would take the names, Tate/Tait, and the approximate time of the purported murder to the Courthouse and ask for help in finding arrests in Sharpsville for any type of crime which is connected with Tait/Tate. Then you could go from there. Are you close enough to this area to do this? If not, and you don't have anyone to check this out for you, let me know and I'll see what I can find. By the way, I know the Tait name well but most of them are--or were--from the farming area of northwestern Mercer County. Norma Fischer ---------- > From: Roxanne Schneider <rs94727@navix.net> > To: PAMERCER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAMERCER-L] Tait (Tate) Murder > Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 5:09 PM > > Family stories say that my girlfriends great grandmother (maiden name > unknown, married name TAIT or TATE) was murdered in Sharpsville by > Goose's Store approx. 1908 or 1909. She had at least one son, Merle > about age 7 at the time, who later took the name Sloan. It is not known > if he was taken in by a family member or adapted by a SLOAN family. > Does anything sound familiar? Any help would be appreciated. > Dan Lanter > d_lanter@yahoo.com or > rb@navix.net > > > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > > Any questions/problems regarding the PAMERCER-L list, contact the > listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert.usgw@worldnet.att.net > Visit the Mercer County, Pennsylvania Genealogy web site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/ > This list is sponsored by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. > Please help support Rootsweb: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html