This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Paris, Benners Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdB.2ACE/511 Message Board Post: Thought you PARIS family researchers may find this interesting: The Daily Journal, Wilmington, N.C., April 17, 1872: "The Dispatch of this city, will tomorrow contain the following account of a military outrage in South Carolina: The latter part of last week a squad of Federal cavalry shot and killed a poor countryman by the name of PARIS, while fishing on a boat on Broad River, in York District, S.C. The soldiers allege that they shot only to terrify him. The squad was under the command of Lieut. Benners." I don't have the issue of the following day, so I don't know what the followup story said. You could probably locate it at the NC State Library on microfilm. I'm not related to this family and have no further information.