KOONCE Shoots Boys (1855)
Title: Shot
On last Friday, at Mulberry, Needham P. KOONCE shot one of G.M. STEELE’s negro boys. KOONCE was correcting a brother of the boy shot, who interrupted, and would not desist until he received the wound. It is thought the boy will recover. — Lincoln Journal.
Source: Nashville Union and American – March 10, 1855