Wilburn Turner 1845-1916

    Wilburn was my g-g grandpa. He served in the Civil War, was captured twice, and suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder.  Today I utilized the FamilySearch Full Text search and the My Heritage Scribe AI to sniff out this story.  

Summary from Scribe AI

   You can see it provides a vivid snapshot of local justice, law enforcement practices of the era (such as a constable deputizing local citizens like an ex-judge to assist in a search), and community conflicts.

----Quite a serious difficulty occurred down in the country at the residence of Mr. James Sweeney last Wednesday evening, between Wilburn Turner and James Sweeney. The origin of the difficulty is one of very unpleasant reflections. Mr. Turner had lost some meat which he supposed had been stolen, came to town Wednesday evening, took out a search warrant, and put it into the hands of constable Drummond who summoned ex-Judge J. L. Weaver and Mr. Mack Barnett to assist in the search. They all went to the house of Mr. Sweeney and began to search. They found a box in which was some meat and after examining it Sweeney asked Turner if that was his meat, Turner said he thought not, that his meat had the skin on and this had not, whereupon Sweeney told Turner to get out of his house, at the same time drew a knife struck at Turner, inflicting a painful wound in the shoulder. Sweeney was arrested brought to town and filled a bond of $100 for his appearance in court. Turner is improving.----


NEWSPAPER  The Echo, London, KY, March 1879

 Barbourville, Knox, Kentucky, United States records," images, FamilySearch image 657 of 739; .

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