A Terrible Holocaust
Robert Keightley, an old man residing five miles southwest of this city, visited here on business, and while absent from his home, his brother Robert, (mentioned later as William) aged about 50, his sister Adelia aged about 40 and a little boy by the name of Louis Stobbs, eleven years old, were brutally murdered at their home and the house set afire.
The bodies of Miss Keightley and louis Stobbs were lying side by side at one end of the kitchen and the body of William Keightley across from them by the chimney and stove. It is said that Dr. J. P. Thatcher had been treating William Keightley for incipient insanity for five or six weeks. For more info, see: Sedalia Democrat - Tuesday, September 2, 1873 pg.1
Cemetery burial records for Mrs. William Keightley, buried in Calvary on Aug. 30, 1873 in Sec. A, Lot 21, gr.4
*Error in records. Sister of William, not wife.
Robert Keightley, an old man residing five miles southwest of this city, visited here on business, and while absent from his home, his brother Robert, (mentioned later as William) aged about 50, his sister Adelia aged about 40 and a little boy by the name of Louis Stobbs, eleven years old, were brutally murdered at their home and the house set afire.
The bodies of Miss Keightley and louis Stobbs were lying side by side at one end of the kitchen and the body of William Keightley across from them by the chimney and stove. It is said that Dr. J. P. Thatcher had been treating William Keightley for incipient insanity for five or six weeks. For more info, see: Sedalia Democrat - Tuesday, September 2, 1873 pg.1
Cemetery burial records for Mrs. William Keightley, buried in Calvary on Aug. 30, 1873 in Sec. A, Lot 21, gr.4
*Error in records. Sister of William, not wife.
A Terrible Holocaust
Robert Keightley, an old man residing five miles southwest of this city, visited here on business, and while absent from his home, his brother Robert, (mentioned later as William) aged about 50, his sister Adelia aged about 40 and a little boy by the name of Louis Stobbs, eleven years old, were brutally murdered at their home and the house set afire.
The bodies of Miss Keightley and louis Stobbs were lying side by side at one end of the kitchen and the body of William Keightley across from them by the chimney and stove. It is said that Dr. J. P. Thatcher had been treating William Keightley for incipient insanity for five or six weeks. For more info, see: Sedalia Democrat - Tuesday, September 2, 1873 pg.1
Cemetery burial records for Mrs. William Keightley, buried in Calvary on Aug. 30, 1873 in Sec. A, Lot 21, gr.4
*Error in records. Sister of William, not wife.
Robert Keightley, an old man residing five miles southwest of this city, visited here on business, and while absent from his home, his brother Robert, (mentioned later as William) aged about 50, his sister Adelia aged about 40 and a little boy by the name of Louis Stobbs, eleven years old, were brutally murdered at their home and the house set afire.
The bodies of Miss Keightley and louis Stobbs were lying side by side at one end of the kitchen and the body of William Keightley across from them by the chimney and stove. It is said that Dr. J. P. Thatcher had been treating William Keightley for incipient insanity for five or six weeks. For more info, see: Sedalia Democrat - Tuesday, September 2, 1873 pg.1
Cemetery burial records for Mrs. William Keightley, buried in Calvary on Aug. 30, 1873 in Sec. A, Lot 21, gr.4
*Error in records. Sister of William, not wife.
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