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Subject: July 13, 1859 Van Buren Press
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 05:48:01 EDT

Van Buren Press
Crawford County, Arkansas
July 13, 1859
MURDER IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY
News reached this place on Saturday last that a man by the name of Hurst
stabbed brothers, Frank and Wharton Rector, on the 4th of July near Fort
Arbuckle in the Indian Country. Horton Rector, we are informed died in a few
minutes. Frank was not dead when we last heard from him, but was supposed to
be past recovery. We have not heard the particulars of the melancholy affair
but learn it was altogether without provocation, and entirely unsuspected by
the parties slain. The Rectors were young men, raised in this county, and
nephews of Elias Rector, Indian Superintendent. They were noble and generous
young men; never known to have a difficulty with any person, and admired and
respected by all who knew them.
The news of their untimely death has thrown a melancholy gloom over all their
acquaintances in this place, not soon to be forgotten.

Fran Alverson Warren

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