This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamil, Cagle, Nevilf, Magee, Burris, Cook, Robbins, Sessions Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5977 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald, Thur., 21 May 1903 Deaths - Mrs. James Hamil and J. C. Cagle were killed last Wednesday at the Nevilf farm, some 3-miles south of Rockdale. Martin Magee was wounded. An infant boy of the Hamil family was struck over the head with a revolver and hurt. Last week a party composed of Martin Magee and wife, J. H. Burris and wife, Mrs. Della Cook and Mrs. Robbins, left Jonah, in Williamson Co. for a dewberry hunt in the post-oaks of Rockdale. They reached the Nevilf place on Wednesday night and were invited by the people there to camp. James Hamil and family were tenants on the place and with Hamil lived J. C. Cagle and his son, who were also renters. Cagle and Hamil it appears had made a contract by which each was to furnish his proportionate share of the provisions. On Saturday before it came Cagle’s time to make purchases and it is stated that he refused to do so. A row ensued but time passed until Thursday morning at breakfast time. When the family had been seated at the breakfast table,! Cagle appeared in a door with a revolver in hand for the purpose of using it on Hamil. In Hamil’s bedroom was his loaded shotgun, but Cagle had him cut-off. Mrs. Hamil, terrified and screaming sprang between her husband and Cagle. Cagle turned his revolver on the woman and shot her through the breast and she died a few minutes later. Martin Magee undertook to prevent further trouble but was shot by Cagle. Hamil was able to get his shotgun and fired a load of shot full unto Cagle’s face, and he soon died. Cagle’s son got a gun and snapped it at Hamil but it was not loaded and Hamil wrenched it out of his hands. Mrs. Robbins went to Rockdale for a doctor and Mrs. Magee and Mrs. Cook prevented with hands the flow of blood from Magee’s wound. Dr. Sessions and Dr. Gray reached the scene and were joined by Dr. Cook of Granger. Magee, age 62, was taken to Georgetown on the first train and he having a son there in the mercantile business. Officers to! ok charge of James Hamil and the boy, Joe Cagle. [very lengthy article]