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From: "Roger Harvell" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] ED Pugh second marriage
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:05:47 -0600
References: <02b201c508a0$78c2d070$053210ac@PHILLES> <001f01c508a3$e8166380$0b00a8c0@vera>


Vera ! You are something !!

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From: "Vera Reeves" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] ED Pugh second marriage


> Calico Rock Progress
> March 27, 1942 - Kills Wife's Mother and Then Himself
> Ed Pugh, 54, of Batesville, Ark., killed his mother-in-law, Mrs
Pearl
> Cunningham, 58 and critically wounded her husband, Calvin J. Cunningham,
60
> a farmer, before killing himself at the Cunningham farm home about 15
miles
> from West Plains, Mo., Monday night.
> Coroner John Duncan of Howell County said the shooting climaxed a
> dispute between Pugh and his estranged wife, Alice. Wilburn Pugh, 21,
> step-daughter of Mr Cunningham. The coroner said that from indications,
> Pugh, using Cunningham's shotgun, first shot Mrs Cunningham when she ran
to
> a window to call her husband. When Mr Cunningham came running into the
house
> a struggle over the gun followed and Mr Cunningham was shot.
> The coroner said apparently Pugh then went into the kitchen and
fired
> a charge from the gun into his own body. Pugh's body was returned to
> Batesville for burial.
> Mr. Cunningham was taken to a hospital in West Plains where doctors
> hold little hope for his recovery.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > Can anyone do a lookup for the second marriage of Eddie H Pugh. He
would
> have been about 49 and she would have been between 14 or 15. They lived
in
> Izard County. The girls mother remarried a man that worked for the
railroad
> and was sent to West Plains, Mo. That is why when the girl ran off she
went
> to her mothers.
> > Philles
>
>
>
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