{"id":156,"date":"2013-08-15T00:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=156"},"modified":"2013-08-26T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:02:50","slug":"hicks-caswell-d-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/hicks-caswell-d-1869\/","title":{"rendered":"HICKS, Caswell &#8211; (d. 1869)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Fatal Shooting<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Mr. DIVINE<\/strong> having been deputized, and a warrant placed in his hands, to arrest one Enos HUNT for horse stealing, summonsed a <strong>Mr. WHITE<\/strong> and <strong>Caswell HICKS<\/strong> to assist him. \u00a0The three repaired to the house of Enos&#8217; father, and called for him. \u00a0Enos being up stairs, his father told him to come down, saying, these men are after you, let us kill them, and immediately commenced firing on <strong>DIVINE<\/strong> and his assistants, who returned the fire. \u00a0<strong>Caswell HICKS<\/strong> was killed outright, and both of the <strong>HUNT<\/strong>&#8216;s wounded, after which, they were arrested and lodged in jail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<\/em><i>The Sweetwater enterprise.<\/i>\u00a0(Sweetwater, Tenn.), 25 Nov. 1869.\u00a0<i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/i>. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89058302\/1869-11-25\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89058302\/1869-11-25\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Note<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/tree\/#view=tree&amp;person=LCWS-3L1&amp;section=pedigree\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"line-height: 15.994318008422852px;\">View Family Tree on FamilySearch<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatal Shooting A Mr. DIVINE having been deputized, and a warrant placed in his hands, to arrest one Enos HUNT for horse stealing, summonsed a Mr. WHITE and Caswell HICKS to assist him. \u00a0The three repaired to the house of Enos&#8217; father, and called for him. \u00a0Enos being up stairs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,112,43],"tags":[481,483,482],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-familysearch-family-tree","category-monroe","tag-divine-mr","tag-hicks-caswell","tag-white-mr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}