This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pritchard Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5302 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Tues., 3 Dec. 1878, p. 3, c. 3 Rockdale Messenger: On Wednesday evening of last week as P. W. Pritchard, who lives 16-miles southwest of Rockdale was returning home from this place in his wagon, four men overtook him at the 12-mile post. Two rode ahead of the wagon and the others up on each side and putting their pistols to head head, ordered him to “throw up his hands or die.” They then went through his pockets, taking from him $404 in money.