This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Ellis Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8450 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 16 Oct 1899, p.9 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Negro Shot and Killed Cameron, Tex., 15 Oct – Will Smith, colored was shot and killed near the Sap depot late this afternoon and Hec Ellis and his son Tom gave themselves up to the officers. From what can be learned the negro young Ellis a cursing yesterday and while he and his father were out walking this afternoon they saw the negro and were about to cane him for his insolence of yesterday when he struck Mr. Ellis upon the head with a board, producing a serious wound, when young Ellis shot and killed him.