This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wk4.2ACEB/9670 Message Board Post: >From the Mobile, AL newspaper Oct.30, 1906 "Yesterday afternoon at 2:10 o'clock, Hubbard Parker ...a laborer in building the railroad tracks into the new Union Depot at the head of Royal street, was knocked in the head with a shovel handle in the hands of James Dismuke, from effects of which he died in about fifteen minutes. Dismuke was held by the foreman of the gang until a policeman came, who arrested him..." The body was taken to the police station, where an inquest was held. Parker's neck had been broken by the blow, and testimony showed that the two men had earlier quarreled over a bucket. The coroner's jury recommended that Dismuke be charged with murder. Not my line, just sharing.