Individual Details

Birth

1900 census shows born in South Carolina

Death

The dead body of Thomas Furr, an 18-year-old youth, who disappeared from his home, was found in a stubble field a mile from Monroe. A gunshot wound in the heart was the silent evidence of the cause of his death, Furr left the house of Harvey Flynn, a brother-in-law, with whom he made his home, after eating his supper. He rode a mule and carried his gun. Before daylight Thursday morning the mule returned riderless, and with great splotches of blood on the saddle. Flynn immediately started out to search for the boy and shortly afterward found his dead body in a field a quarter of a mile from the house. After returning home with the body Flynn invoked the aid of officers and together they returned to the scene. A half-mile from the spot where the body was found is the cabin of Susie Watts, a negress. Search of the cabin revealed a quantity of bloody clothing, including an apron and young Furr's gun, which had been discharged. The woman was arrested and with her Charles Stratford, a negro man, who was with her when the officers arrived. The arrest of Stratford was made on the strength of evidence that he had a quarrel with young Furr Sunday and was heard to say that he intended to get even with the boy. Tho officer believe that young Furr was murdered in the negro woman's cabin by Stratford, assisted by the woman, and that together they dragged the body to the place where it was found. The coroner has not yet held an inquest, but Stratford and the woman are safe in Union county jail here.