Individual Details

Military

By Robert McLain for 3 years or War. Never reported and was home sick. Final was he deserted and was never paid

Death

Asberry Caves 1880, Clarke County, Mississippi
age 30 male died March, Born in Mississippi
ID# MRT197_54116
Occupation farmer
Causse of Death: Murdered

Criminal

The Fayette Chronicle - Fri., 27 Feb 1800, Vol, XIV, No 19
"Murder in Clark County"
A horrible and deplorable homicide occurred in Clark County near Shuburs [Shubuta], day before yesterday. The victim was a man by the name of Caves, quite a young man, but married and having a family and keeping house.
He was entirely respectable and of excellent family, the nephew of Rev.M Gilmore, a Methodist preacher stationed at Marion, we believe at this time.
A widowed aunt whose maiden name was Gilmore, well stricken in years, had her home in his family. The way we hear it, she is, probably and always has been a woman of violent temper, subject fits of uncontrollable anger.
On the day of the terrible and lamentable affair she appears to have fallen into a desperate fit of anger with Cave's young wife and inflicting personal violence on her. The young man happened to be near enough to witness the difficulty and happened to the scene, presumable to stop it. His aunt turned upon him and plunged a knife to his heart. He lived about fifteen minutes.