William Reed Miller was married to Elizabeth Jackson, d/o William Andrew Jackson. William Jackson shot and killed William Miller. William Miller is buried in Hazelgreen Cemetery while Elizabeth Jackson Miller is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Richland, MO. with her Jackson family. William & Elizabeth Miller were the parents of Clara and Andrew Miller. Andrew is buried in Hazelgreen Cemetery and Clara is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma.
Rolla Herald; Rolla, Missouri
30 Jun 1887
Homicide
A Pulaski County Farmer Kills His Son-In-Law – A Deplorable Tragedy. (Lebanon Graphic)
W. A. Jackson, a thrifty farmer living in Pulaski county, close to the east line of this county, shot his son-in-law, Wm. Miller. Mr. Jackson's family residence is at Richland, and he is there most of the time except in "crop season," when he with part of his family occupies one of the houses on the farm. Miller lives on the farm and for two or three years has taken care of it. Just what about the difficulty has not been learned here, but it seems that it terminated fatally Monday. The report is that early in the morning Miller went to the Jackson domicile on the farm and Jackson being absent, by threats of vengeance and the display of a pistol, frightened the girls (Jackson's daughters who were keeping house) until their screams attracted Jackson to the house and on "taking in the situation" picked up a shotgun and shot Miller in the breast. Miller died in about an hour.
As soon as Miller died Jackson started for Waynesville to place himself in the custody of the sheriff. Jackson and Miller have been regarded as good citizens – quiet, peaceable and industrious, and such a tragic termination of their business and family relations is a great surprise as well as regret to all who have known them.
Miller was a young man not 30 years of age, a son of Mr. C.C. Miller, another thrifty Gasconade farmer, and leaves a wife and two children. Jackson is about sixty years old, and has lived on his farm on the Gasconade river about twenty years, has interesting family and a host of friends who will seriously regret the unfortunate affair which has cast a gloom of sorrow over the whole community. He is a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic order.
Later.
This morning we received the following from a special Richland correspondent:
"I was at the inquest but there was but very little evidence introduced so far as fixing the guilt of the defendant who has not yet been arrested. Mr. Jackson was near his barn shooting or fixing to shoot some rats; William Miller came along the road horseback, hunting harvest hands; they got into a general row and Jackson shot Miller with a double-barreled shot-gun loaded with small shot, the shot struck him at the end of the tenth rib on the right side, at the lower part of the breast making a hole one and a half inches in diameter, part of the liver protruding through the wound. Miller, when picked up by his wife, had a 38 caliber revolver gripped in his right hand, one chamber having been discharged."
Rolla Herald; Rolla, Missouri
30 Jun 1887
Homicide
A Pulaski County Farmer Kills His Son-In-Law – A Deplorable Tragedy. (Lebanon Graphic)
W. A. Jackson, a thrifty farmer living in Pulaski county, close to the east line of this county, shot his son-in-law, Wm. Miller. Mr. Jackson's family residence is at Richland, and he is there most of the time except in "crop season," when he with part of his family occupies one of the houses on the farm. Miller lives on the farm and for two or three years has taken care of it. Just what about the difficulty has not been learned here, but it seems that it terminated fatally Monday. The report is that early in the morning Miller went to the Jackson domicile on the farm and Jackson being absent, by threats of vengeance and the display of a pistol, frightened the girls (Jackson's daughters who were keeping house) until their screams attracted Jackson to the house and on "taking in the situation" picked up a shotgun and shot Miller in the breast. Miller died in about an hour.
As soon as Miller died Jackson started for Waynesville to place himself in the custody of the sheriff. Jackson and Miller have been regarded as good citizens – quiet, peaceable and industrious, and such a tragic termination of their business and family relations is a great surprise as well as regret to all who have known them.
Miller was a young man not 30 years of age, a son of Mr. C.C. Miller, another thrifty Gasconade farmer, and leaves a wife and two children. Jackson is about sixty years old, and has lived on his farm on the Gasconade river about twenty years, has interesting family and a host of friends who will seriously regret the unfortunate affair which has cast a gloom of sorrow over the whole community. He is a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic order.
Later.
This morning we received the following from a special Richland correspondent:
"I was at the inquest but there was but very little evidence introduced so far as fixing the guilt of the defendant who has not yet been arrested. Mr. Jackson was near his barn shooting or fixing to shoot some rats; William Miller came along the road horseback, hunting harvest hands; they got into a general row and Jackson shot Miller with a double-barreled shot-gun loaded with small shot, the shot struck him at the end of the tenth rib on the right side, at the lower part of the breast making a hole one and a half inches in diameter, part of the liver protruding through the wound. Miller, when picked up by his wife, had a 38 caliber revolver gripped in his right hand, one chamber having been discharged."
William Reed Miller was married to Elizabeth Jackson, d/o William Andrew Jackson. William Jackson shot and killed William Miller. William Miller is buried in Hazelgreen Cemetery while Elizabeth Jackson Miller is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Richland, MO. with her Jackson family. William & Elizabeth Miller were the parents of Clara and Andrew Miller. Andrew is buried in Hazelgreen Cemetery and Clara is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma.
Rolla Herald; Rolla, Missouri
30 Jun 1887
Homicide
A Pulaski County Farmer Kills His Son-In-Law – A Deplorable Tragedy. (Lebanon Graphic)
W. A. Jackson, a thrifty farmer living in Pulaski county, close to the east line of this county, shot his son-in-law, Wm. Miller. Mr. Jackson's family residence is at Richland, and he is there most of the time except in "crop season," when he with part of his family occupies one of the houses on the farm. Miller lives on the farm and for two or three years has taken care of it. Just what about the difficulty has not been learned here, but it seems that it terminated fatally Monday. The report is that early in the morning Miller went to the Jackson domicile on the farm and Jackson being absent, by threats of vengeance and the display of a pistol, frightened the girls (Jackson's daughters who were keeping house) until their screams attracted Jackson to the house and on "taking in the situation" picked up a shotgun and shot Miller in the breast. Miller died in about an hour.
As soon as Miller died Jackson started for Waynesville to place himself in the custody of the sheriff. Jackson and Miller have been regarded as good citizens – quiet, peaceable and industrious, and such a tragic termination of their business and family relations is a great surprise as well as regret to all who have known them.
Miller was a young man not 30 years of age, a son of Mr. C.C. Miller, another thrifty Gasconade farmer, and leaves a wife and two children. Jackson is about sixty years old, and has lived on his farm on the Gasconade river about twenty years, has interesting family and a host of friends who will seriously regret the unfortunate affair which has cast a gloom of sorrow over the whole community. He is a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic order.
Later.
This morning we received the following from a special Richland correspondent:
"I was at the inquest but there was but very little evidence introduced so far as fixing the guilt of the defendant who has not yet been arrested. Mr. Jackson was near his barn shooting or fixing to shoot some rats; William Miller came along the road horseback, hunting harvest hands; they got into a general row and Jackson shot Miller with a double-barreled shot-gun loaded with small shot, the shot struck him at the end of the tenth rib on the right side, at the lower part of the breast making a hole one and a half inches in diameter, part of the liver protruding through the wound. Miller, when picked up by his wife, had a 38 caliber revolver gripped in his right hand, one chamber having been discharged."
Rolla Herald; Rolla, Missouri
30 Jun 1887
Homicide
A Pulaski County Farmer Kills His Son-In-Law – A Deplorable Tragedy. (Lebanon Graphic)
W. A. Jackson, a thrifty farmer living in Pulaski county, close to the east line of this county, shot his son-in-law, Wm. Miller. Mr. Jackson's family residence is at Richland, and he is there most of the time except in "crop season," when he with part of his family occupies one of the houses on the farm. Miller lives on the farm and for two or three years has taken care of it. Just what about the difficulty has not been learned here, but it seems that it terminated fatally Monday. The report is that early in the morning Miller went to the Jackson domicile on the farm and Jackson being absent, by threats of vengeance and the display of a pistol, frightened the girls (Jackson's daughters who were keeping house) until their screams attracted Jackson to the house and on "taking in the situation" picked up a shotgun and shot Miller in the breast. Miller died in about an hour.
As soon as Miller died Jackson started for Waynesville to place himself in the custody of the sheriff. Jackson and Miller have been regarded as good citizens – quiet, peaceable and industrious, and such a tragic termination of their business and family relations is a great surprise as well as regret to all who have known them.
Miller was a young man not 30 years of age, a son of Mr. C.C. Miller, another thrifty Gasconade farmer, and leaves a wife and two children. Jackson is about sixty years old, and has lived on his farm on the Gasconade river about twenty years, has interesting family and a host of friends who will seriously regret the unfortunate affair which has cast a gloom of sorrow over the whole community. He is a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic order.
Later.
This morning we received the following from a special Richland correspondent:
"I was at the inquest but there was but very little evidence introduced so far as fixing the guilt of the defendant who has not yet been arrested. Mr. Jackson was near his barn shooting or fixing to shoot some rats; William Miller came along the road horseback, hunting harvest hands; they got into a general row and Jackson shot Miller with a double-barreled shot-gun loaded with small shot, the shot struck him at the end of the tenth rib on the right side, at the lower part of the breast making a hole one and a half inches in diameter, part of the liver protruding through the wound. Miller, when picked up by his wife, had a 38 caliber revolver gripped in his right hand, one chamber having been discharged."
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