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From: Brenda Cameron <>
Subject: Re: [NCMOORE] Murder
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:41:44 -0500 (GMT-05:00)


Ted,
This would be Moore County, North Carolina (not Tennessee).
B. Cameron



-----Original Message-----
>From: Ted Larson <>
>Sent: Dec 5, 2006 11:33 AM
>To: , ,
>Subject: [NCMOORE] Murder
>
>Can anyone claim this guy??
>Hi List:
>The message below was posted on the Gilchrist list in February 2002 by
>Dean Gilchrist. I think that I have found the culprit in some
>genealogical works. In the works it says that John A (Big John)
>Gilchrist was the son of James Gilchrist and Christian Campbell, was
>born on the Island of Islay in about 1812 and lived (or at least his
>parents lived) in Moore county (later Lee county) Tennessee and that he
>was married to Mary Anne Buie.
>
>Now does anyone know what happened to him after the murder. I have not
>found him in any census.
>
>Ted Larson
>
>
>A MURDER AT McNEILL'S MUSTER GROUND
>Source: Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville, NC, Monday, July 26, 1858
>(Vol. XLII; No. 2147)
>
>
>Homicide - We learn that on Monday last (July 19, 1858), at
>McNeill's muster ground, in Moore County, a difficulty occured between
>John A. Gilchrist (called "Big John") and Arch'd Smith (called "Red
>Archy") which resulted in Gilchrist's striking down Smith with a heavy
>stick; Smith breathed and gasped once or twice and died. Both had been
>drinking. Gilchrist stood by till it was announced that Smith was dead,
>when he mounted his horse and rode off. He was pursued, and one man came
>up with him, but he warned the pursuer that he would kill him if he
>approached. Gilchrist being a very powerful man, the other was compelled
>to let him escape.
>
>(Note): Moore County, County Court Minutes - Saturday, October 30, 1858
>(Page No. 518): On motion Malcom C. Johnson, coroner, is allowed the sum
>of $6.00 for entering the body of Arch'd Smith and $7.40 for holding an
>inquest over the body of the said Arch'd Smith......
>
>
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