George Thomas Lightfoot (c.1836-1872) — of Bolivar
County, Miss. Born in Tennessee. Lawyer;
probate judge in Mississippi, 1860-66. Served as special judge in a
murder trial; sentenced a man to be hanged; someone aggrieved by the
verdict shot and killed him while he was returning home, near
Beulah, Bolivar
County, Miss., spring of 1872.
Interment at a
private or family graveyard, Bolivar County, Miss.
Alonzo William Slayback (1838-1882) — also known as
Alonzo W. Slayback — of St.
Louis, Mo. Born July 4,
1838. Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1876. Member, Elks.
Shot and killed by John Cockerill, editor of the
Post-Dispatch newspaper, in St.
Louis, Mo., October
13, 1882. Cockerill pleaded self-defense and was not indicted by
the grand jury. Interment at Machpelah
Cemetery, Lexington, Mo.
Thomas J. R. Swafford (d. 1884) — Democrat. Member
of Tennessee
state senate, 1884; died in office 1884; shot
through his arm by Jeff Dibrell, brother of George
G. Dibrell; injured
in several other gun and knife fights, in one of which he wounded two
attackers and accidentally killed his father-in-law. Shot to
death during an armed confrontation with Monroe Hudson,
shopkeeper, who had ordered him to leave his store, in
Sparta, White
County, Tenn., October
17, 1884. Burial
location unknown.
William Wirt Adams (1819-1888) — of Mississippi.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March 22,
1819. Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1858; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Shot and killed in
a street encounter with John Martin, a newspaper editor with whom he
had quarreled, in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., May 1,
1888. Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.; cenotaph at Confederate
Cemetery, Okolona, Miss.
John Adam Henneman (1835-1891) — also known as J.
A. Henneman — of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C. Born in Kronach, Bavaria (now Germany),
1835.
Married to Louisa Rate (1838-1909). Served in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; jeweler; mayor
of Spartanburg, S.C., 1891; died in office 1891. German
ancestry. Shot to death by John Williams, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., September
27, 1891; Williams was hanged for the murder on October 7, 1892.
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Spartanburg, S.C.
Albert Jennings Fountain (1838-1896) — also known as
Albert J. Fountain; Albert Jennings — of El Paso,
El Paso
County, Tex.; Mesilla, Dona Ana
County, N.M. Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., October
23, 1838. Son of Solomon Jennings and Catherine (de la Fontaine)
Jennings; married 1862 to Mariana
Perez. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
U.S. Collector of Customs at El Paso; Assessor and Collector of
Internal Revenue for the Western District of Texas; member of Texas
state senate, 1869-70; fought a duel
with Frank Williams, and killed him; lawyer.
Presumed murdered near White Sands, Dona Ana
County, N.M., February
1, 1896; his body was never
found.
Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) — also known as
Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New
York"; "Handy Andy" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born near Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1820. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1880;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 13th District, 1894.
Protestant.
Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State
Preserve (first
state park in the U.S.); led crusade to consolidate the five boroughs
into today's New York City; helped create the New York Public
Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural institutions. Green
Island, near Niagara Falls, is named for
him. Shot and killed, by a murderer who mistook him for
someone else, in front of his home, on Park Avenue, New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903. Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
John McPherson Pinckney (1845-1905) — also known as
John M. Pinckney — of Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex. Born near Hempstead, Grimes
County, Tex., May 4,
1845. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; state court judge in Texas, 1900-03; U.S.
Representative from Texas 8th District, 1903-05; died in office
1905. Assaulted and killed at a meeting
of the Waller County Prohibition League, Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex., April 24,
1905. Interment at City
Cemetery, Hempstead, Tex.
Henry H. Denhardt (1876-1937) — of Kentucky. Born in
Warren
County, Ky., 1876.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1923-27. Shot
and injured on Election Day 1931. After his girlfriend was killed in
November 1936, he was charged
with murder
and tried in
LaGrange, Ky.; the jury could not reach a verdict. Before he could be
tried a second time, he was shot to death, at the Armstrong Hotel,
Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ky., September
20, 1937. Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
James Theodore Marriner (c.1892-1937) — also known
as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted Marriner — Born in
Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine. Son of Harriet Cram (Thorpe) Marriner. U.S. Consul
General in Beirut, 1935-37, died in office 1937. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa. Shot dead by Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian
who thought he had been denied a U.S. visa, in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon),
October
12, 1937; the killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon
after. Interment somewhere
in Portland, Maine.
Allison D. Wade (d. 1954) — of Warren, Warren
County, Pa. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1944;
county judge in Pennsylvania, 1954. Shot to death in his courtroom
by Norman W. Moon, in the Warren County
Courthouse, Warren, Warren
County, Pa., January
13, 1954. Moon, who attempted suicide at the time of his arrest,
was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death; the
sentence was commuted to a mental institution by Gov. George
M. Leader, and then to life imprisonment. Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Warren, Pa.
