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From: "cora miller" <>
Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] NEED HELP TO CONFIRM A MURDER STORY - HARBIN
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:17:26 -0600
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If you go to
www.joplinglobe.com

they have a archivist at paper
also try Joplin public library
Joplin is county seat.
cora miller
----- Original Message -----
From: "heather e blair" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] NEED HELP TO CONFIRM A MURDER STORY - HARBIN


>I wonder if there would be coroner's reports or an inquest or something
> about James Harbin's death.
>
> In your family story, was anybody ever charged with the murder? If so,
> there might be court documents.
>
> - Heather
>
> http://surgerysupport.uchicago.edu/hblair/
>
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Joan Marie wrote:
>
>> I need help, please, to prove or disprove a family story. James Madison
>> HARBIN was 44 and a laborer on a steam jig in Joplin in 1900, wife Belle
>> Boone Thomas. There were several kids. Belle remarried an Eli Francis
>> in 1908 according to the 1910. The story goes like this. James owned a
>> saloon and after a financial transaction in the backroom one night, he
>> was found dead in the alley with no money.
>>
>> SO - if there is any truth to it, is there an index to deaths or burials
>> in the Joplin area from 1900-1910 that list his death? AND if he did die
>> in that period, could someone check for me to find an obit or account of
>> how it occurred? I've already checked the Gen Web without any success,
>> although it is a neat website.
>>
>> Toni for Tim
>>
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