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From: "Billie" <>
Subject: Re: [RAGSDALE] Wheeler-Brown Documents
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:23:19 -0600
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Dana,
Try putting Harrison S. Ragsdale into the search engine. There is a copy of
the "Morgan County, Kentucky Court Records for 1928. They reference
Harrison S. Ragsdale in his US Court of Appeals Case in 1828. This seems to
relate to the same information and again mentions the transcriber Mary Lu
Johnson. It's a start. Oh yes, this records seems to be for sale on E-bay.
Billie
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Subject: Re: [RAGSDALE] Wheeler-Brown Documents
> Thanks, Billie -- can you give us the URL for this? I'm just curious.
> I'd love to go to the local law library and look up the full case, but a
> bit more info is required in order to find it. -- Dana
>
> wrote:
>
>>Dana,
>>I would love to give you that information but this is all I could find. I
>>understand from notes at the bottom that there
>>is 43 pages of this trial in the book. This was all I could really find
>>online the other night. Maybe I will check again tonight.
>>Billie
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>>Subject: Re: [RAGSDALE] Wheeler-Brown Documents
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>>
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>>>Could you tell us the name, author, publisher, and date of publication
>>>of the book? And a case number for the lawsuit if it's listed?
>>>Thanks. - Dana
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I thought this might pertain to somebody on this list if they haven't
>>>>already seen it. I would love to know what ever happened to this
>>>>Harrison
>>>>Ragsdale.
>>>>Billie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>WHEELER-BROWN DOCUMENTS
>>>>transcribed by Mary Lu Johnson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"(272) Nov 1828; Harrison S. Ragsdale of Monroe Co. indicted for
>>>>mortally
>>>>wounding by a stroke with a gun, on 27 Sep 1828 at the Tennessee River,
>>>>John L. HOPKINS*, who died 30 Sep 1828; James Rollins, Absolem STRUTTON,
>>>>Hiram Murry, and Moses Roberts, all of Monroe Co. indicted for aiding;
>>>>not
>>>>a True Bill against Moses Roberts; Jury after a trial lasting eight days
>>>>finds Ragsdale guilty; nole prosqui entered as to Absalem Strutton;
>>>>James
>>>>Rollins found not guilty of murder but of "feloneous slaying", after a
>>>>four day trial; Ragsdale sentenced to be hanged on 13 Feb 1829 and
>>>>appeals
>>>>to Supreme Court; James Rollins sentenced to be branded with letter M on
>>>>left hand, confined in jail for two months, and pay costs of
>>>>prosecution;
>>>>case of Hiram Murry continued. Transcript of record for Supreme Court:
>>>>Court ordered the Sheriff to summon a jury of fifty one including the
>>>>original panel and to summon the most respectable men he could find in
>>>>the
>>>>court yard to which latter direction b!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>y!
>>>
>>>
>>>> the Court the defendant excepts; witness Joseph Milikan states that he
>>>>was at house of William Harrison in Monroe Co. that is near the Muster
>>>>Ground of Capt. Smith's company which had paraded there before the
>>>>fight;
>>>>he heard deceased HOPKINS talk of killing the son of McIntosh of Georgia
>>>>in a duel; Major Stephens tried to squash the affray; witnesses for
>>>>State
>>>>are Joseph Milikan, John Wilson, Samuel Hensley, William Williams,
>>>>Thomas
>>>>Harrison, Dr. Nathan Harris, Samuel Yates, Richard Roberts, Lewis Smith,
>>>>James WRIGHT, William Flanigan, Moses Roberts, James Harrison, Edward
>>>>McEldry, Stephens Rhea (who is cousin to wife of deceased); witnesses
>>>>for
>>>>defentant are John STRUTTON (brother of Absalem STRUTTON), Jackson
>>>>Pannell, Elijah Kelly (who waded the river going to muster and drank
>>>>some
>>>>spirits while there and waded the River when he went home and slipped
>>>>and
>>>>fell in), Thomas Hensley, Jonathan Poland, Anderson Millsaps, Elisha
>>>>Freshour, Jeremiah Carver, Daniel Russell, Valen!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>t!
>>>
>>>
>>>>ine Harris, James Rose, J. Campbell Carsier, William Culver, WILLIAM W
>>>>HEELER, Benjamin Prater (defendant had rented land of him), Lewis
>>>>Miller,
>>>>William Murry (has known defendant for many years and his son is one of
>>>>defendants); (all or most of these witnesses were at the muster ground
>>>>at
>>>>the fight); nolle prosqui entered against Hiram Murry. (This trial and
>>>>transcript cover forty-three pages in the book.)"
>>>>
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