{"id":611,"date":"2013-09-28T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-01-19T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T09:39:09","slug":"shooting-in-union-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/shooting-in-union-church\/","title":{"rendered":"WALTERS Brothers Shot In Union Church (1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bristol news states that a terrible tragedy occurred on Sunday, the 15th ult., at a church called Union, in the northwestern portion of Hawkins county, some nine miles from Kingsport, Tenn. The funeral of<strong> John ELLIS Jr<\/strong>., who had been a confederate soldier, was to be preached by parson <strong>HICKEY<\/strong>, of the Holston Conference. Two men by the name of <strong>WALTERS<\/strong>, perhaps brothers, manifested a disposition to disturb the quiet of the assembly. <strong>Eldridge HORD<\/strong>, esq., of that community, remonstrated against their conduct. Some angry words ensued, and <strong>WALTERS<\/strong> shot <strong>HORD<\/strong>, wounding him severely in the thigh. Whereupon, <strong>Sam SMITH<\/strong>, who had been a Condederate soldier, fired twice upon <strong>WALTERS<\/strong>, killing him upon the spot. The other <strong>WALTERS<\/strong> the shot <strong>SMITH<\/strong>, wounding him slightly. <strong>SMITH<\/strong> returned the fire, wounding the second <strong>WALTERS<\/strong> mortally, and then made his escape.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1866-05-05\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">05 May 1866, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/a>. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bristol news states that a terrible tragedy occurred on Sunday, the 15th ult., at a church called Union, in the northwestern portion of Hawkins county, some nine miles from Kingsport, Tenn. The funeral of John ELLIS Jr., who had been a confederate soldier, was to be preached by parson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,258,15,638],"tags":[778,779,781,782,780],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-crimes","category-death","category-hawkins","tag-ellis-jr-john","tag-hickey-mr","tag-hord-eldriidge","tag-smith-sam","tag-walters-mr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}