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Father: Living Howard
Mother: Living Ponder
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Census: 1880
, Tennessee, Carroll Co., District 18, pg 194B
S0901
Census: 1900
, Tennessee, Carroll Co., Dist 18, ED134, pg191A,sh 14A
S1545
Census: 1920
, Tennessee, Carroll Co., Dist11, ED28, pg119B, sh8B
S0925
Father: William Pinkston
Mother: Julia A Newman
Sources:
S0925: [S0925] 1920 census, Tennessee, Carroll Co., Dist11, ED28, pg119B, sh8B
S1545: [S1545] 1900 census, Tennessee, Carroll Co., Dist 18, ED134, pg191A,sh 14A
S0901: [S0901] 1880 census, Tennessee, Carroll Co., District 18, pg 194B
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Census: 31 Jul 1860
, Texas, Washington Co., Evergreen P.O., p112
S4897
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Father: Campbell Longley
Mother: Sarah Ann Henry
Notes:
US Army Register of Enlistments
Longley, Wm P
enlisted 22 Jun 1870, Camp Hambough, by Lt. Wheelan
born Washington Co. Texas
age 21, Black eyes, Black hair,
2 Cav, Co H
Deserted July 3, 1870, apprh'd July 4, 1870, deserted June 8, 1872.
Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, October 24, 1878.
BILL LONGLEY HANGED
The End of the Most Atrocious Criminal in the Country - Expiaring on
the Gallows One of Over a Score of Murders - A Career Happily
Unparalleled in American Records of Crime. Galveston, Texas, Oct.
11 - A special to the News from Giddings, says Wm. P. Longley,
generally known as Bill Longley, was hanged there to-day in presence
of a vast crowd, for the murder of Wilson Anderson, in March, 1875.
Longley made a speech from the gallows asking forgiveness of those
whom he had injured, and warning his hearers to forgo revenge, as it
was that passion which brought him to the scaffold.
At 2:37 o'clock the drop fell; the culprit moved a couple of times,
and his arms and legs worked spasmodically for a few seconds. In
eleven and a half minutes life was pronounced extinct.
Longley had certainly killed eight men, six whites and two negroes,
besides shooting several others who survived; but it is confidently
believed that at least 30 men died by his hand.
A New York Sun correspondent says; William P. Longley was the first
murderer judicially hanged in Texas for two years. Longley was
undoubtedly the king of desperadoes, though he lately protested to
the writer that he was innocent of some of the murders attributed to
him. He was never able to recall them at all. Longley was one of the
handsomest men I ever met. He was a little over 27 years of age, tall
and graceful, with a mild, blue eye, ruddy complexion, Roman nose, a
dark mustache and goatee, and a set of teeth like pearls. While
talking he occasionally rubbed them with a faded silk handkerchief,
and his voice was low and gentle as a woman's. He wore the Texan
sombrero, the band of which is made in imitation of the coiled
rattlesnake, and with his coat buttoned around his shapely waist,
his hat tipped a little to one side of his well shaped head, he was
the model of the roving desperado of Texas.
Longley began his extraordinary career at the age of 15, when he
and a companion amused themselves by mounting on horseback and
firing at every negro whom they encountered. Those were stormy times
even for Texas, when it was emerging from the civil war, and civil
law was virtually dead in the greater portion of the State. The
immunity which Longley enjoyed emboldened him to more daring crime
until, before reaching his majority, he was one of the most dreaded
men north of the Rio Grande. While yet quite young he started
through the Indian Nation with a companion, but was attacked by
outlaws, his partner was killed, and himself put to flight. When
his horse gave out he shot an Indian and took his from him. This
he repeated several times, until the Creeks and Choctaws gathered
and pursued him. Longley's horse was killed, himself wounded, and
he took to the bush. Here he was found by a squaw, who brought him
food and helped conceal him until the hue and cry was over, when
he got away.
Longley subsequently joined a party which started for the Black
Hills, but were turned back by the Government troops, and he
enlisted in the service. He made an arrangement with the
quartermaster to swindle the Government, but the two attempted
to cheat each other, quarreled, and Longley shot the quartermaster
dead, and then took to the mountains. He was followed, captured,
and sentenced to a long confinement in prison, but escaped, as he
declared, through bribing the guard.
While trampling through the woods in Arkansas one day he stopped
at a cabin, where he was welcomed by its only occupant, a
powerful-limbed, heavily bearded man. While the two were in
conversation the cabin was surrounded by a vigilance committee,
that had come for the express purpose of lynching the host, who
was a noted horse thief named West. Finding a handsome and
graceful guest, they concluded he belonged to the gang. Longley
protested an appealed to the horse-thief, who grimly shook his
head. As there was no help for himself, he thought his visitor
might as well bear him company in the road to the sudden gallows.
Both men were carried out and hanged to the limb of a tree, and
then the seven vigilantes galloped away. A brother of West was
hiding in the woods, watching the proceedings. As the horsemen
disappeared, he ran up and cut down the horse-thief. He was already
dead, but when Longley was lowered, he was found to be alive. The
knot of the rope had caught in his ear, and in the course of an
hour he was as well as over.
Longley straightway devoted himself to "getting even" with the
vigilance committee. He caught and hanged the man who put the
rope around his neck, and claimed to have shot all the others,
though it is scarcely credible that such was the case.
Some of Longley's murders were particularly atrocious. He
deliberately killed the Rev. Mr. Ray, of Arkansas because that
gentleman attempted to persuade a young girl not to marry the
desperado. One night a soldier expressed an unfavorable opinion
of Texans, and Longley sent a bullet through his brain. His last
crime, so far as known, was that of walking into a field where a
man was plowing, and firing one barrel of his gun at him. The poor
fellow fell badly wounded, and asked Longley why he had shot him.
"For fun," was the answer, as the young scoundrel emptied the other
barrel in to his victim's body, instantly killing him. It should be
stated that Longley suspected this person of being concerned in the
slaying of a distant relative of his.
Finally this desperado seemed to weary of his massacres, and went
into Nacogdoches County, where he engaged himself to a farmer. He
wrought quietly for several months, and formed a strong friendship
for a young man in the neighborhood, to whom, finally, under a
solemn pledge of secrecy, he gave his correct name. His confidant
communicated with the authorities, who, knowing the desperate
character of their man, succeeded in surrounding him while he was
unarmed and working in a field. His trial and conviction followed,
and, after several appeals, he suffered yesterday the penalty of
his numerous crimes.
Sources:
S4897: [S4897] 1860 census, Texas, Washington Co., Evergreen P.O., p112
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Father: Hobart Elledge
Mother: Alliene Rardin
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Census: 23 Jul 1860
, Illinois, Henderson Co., Terre Haute. pg497
S1797
Census: 12 Jun 1880
, Illinois, Henderson Co., Terre Haute, ED92, p62B
S2345
Census: 11 May 1910
, Illinois, Henderson Co., Stronghurst Twp, ED39, p280A
S2354
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Father: Samuel Hunter
Mother: Lydia M Heisler
Sources:
S2354: [S2354] 1910 census, Illinois, Henderson Co., Stronghurst Twp, ED39, p280A
S2345: [S2345] 1880 census, Illinois, Henderson Co., Terre Haute, ED92, p62B
S1797: [S1797] 1860 census, Illinois, Henderson Co., Terre Haute. pg497
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Census: 8 Jun 1880
, Missouri, Chariton Co., Cunningham Twp, ED176, p634D
S2654
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Father: William Crossland
Mother: Naomi Ferrell
Sources:
S2654: [S2654] 1880 census, Missouri, Chariton Co., Cunningham Twp, ED176, p634D
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Father: Jacob Willis Capps
Mother: Nora Belle Deaver
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Census: 15 Jun 1900
, Missouri, Oregon Co., Thayer, ED87, p123A
S4696
Census: 1915
, Kansas, Allen Co., Marmaton, p23A
S5892
Census: 12 Jan 1920
, Missouri, Oregon Co., Thayer, ED144, p138A
S5915
Census: 9 Apr 1930
, Arkansas, Randolph Co., Wiley Tp, ED61-33, p185B
S5891
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Father: Nehemiah Longley
Mother: Elizabeth Lucinda Long
Sources:
S5891: [S5891] 1930 census, Arkansas, Randolph Co., Wiley Tp, ED61-33, p185B
S5915: [S5915] 1920 census, Missouri, Oregon Co., Thayer, ED144, p138A
S5892: [S5892] 1915 census, Kansas, Allen Co., Marmaton, p23A
S4696: [S4696] 1900 census, Missouri, Oregon Co., Thayer, ED87, p123A
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Census: 31 Aug 1870
, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Newton Twp, pg270B
S1997
Census: 8 Jun 1880
, Ohio, Perry Co., Shawnee, ED213, pg223C
S2000
Census: 14 Jan 1920
, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Zanesville, ED133, p132A
S6409
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Father: Peter Weaver
Mother: Virginia A Savage
Sources:
S6409: [S6409] 1920 census, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Zanesville, ED133, p132A
S2000: [S2000] 1880 census, Ohio, Perry Co., Shawnee, ED213, pg223C
S1997: [S1997] 1870 census, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Newton Twp, pg270B
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Father: Francis Ralph Shively
Mother: Beatrice Foster
Sources:
S9022: Texas Death Index, 1903 - 2000, Ancestry.com
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Census: 5 Jan 1920
, Tennessee, Montgomery Co., Dist 12, ED146, p73A
S3287
Census: 7 Apr 1930
, Tennessee, Knox Co., Knoxville, ED47-34, p39A
S3288
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Father: William Robert Blackwell
Mother: Anna Idell Plummer
Sources:
S3288: [S3288] 1930 census, Tennessee, Knox Co., Knoxville, ED47-34, p39A
S3287: [S3287] 1920 census, Tennessee, Montgomery Co., Dist 12, ED146, p73A
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Census: 23 Feb 1920
, Texas, Stephens Co., Pct 6, ED253, p263B
S6454
Census: 14 Apr 1930
, Texas, Palo Pinto Co., Strawn, ED182-18, p248B
S6455
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Sources:
S6455: [S6455] 1930 census, Texas, Palo Pinto Co., Strawn, ED182-18, p248B
S6454: [S6454] 1920 census, Texas, Stephens Co., Pct 6, ED253, p263B
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| m.Walter W Sipe |
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Census: 2 Apr 1930
, Kansas, Sherman Co., Llanos, ED91-8, p56A
S3197
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Father: John Martin Fiechter
Mother: Gladys G fiechter
Sources:
S3197: [S3197] 1930 census, Kansas, Sherman Co., Llanos, ED91-8, p56A
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Father: Living Fitzhugh
Mother: Living Longley
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Father: Joseph Preston Gibson
Mother: Anna Rachel Odell
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Notes:
UNIDENTIFIED-INDIVIDUAL! - found in SSDI, married a KNOWLES
death notice:
Roanoke Times, The (VA) - May 18, 1993
KNOWLES, Florence Mae, 91, of Meadows of Dan, died Sunday, May 16,
1993. Funeral 11 a.m. Tuesday, Moody Funeral Home Chapel, Stuart.
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