Re: To: Anonymous (Farris name origin)
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Re: To: Anonymous (Farris name origin)
8/17/00
I'm curious about who in your family was murdered.I have a great or great great uncle, can't remember which right now, that stabbed a Will Farris in Dodd City, Texas.The story is that Rufus Wells was defending his brother or some member of the family and there was a knife fight.Rufus was sent to Huntsville prison, where his sentence was commuted after five years.I have been searching for info on it for years.Someone was nice enough to send me the following article that appeared in the Dallas Morning News on 3/22/1897.
"Dodd City, Fannin County, Tex., March 21--
About 11:30 last night Will Farris was stabbed to the heart and died instantly.Rufus Wells was arrested and taken to Bonham Jail.Farris was a son of respected parents, living about eight miles north of here.Both were white men abot 22 years old."
Could this be your family?I have been searching,but I've never found anything else out about it.
Karen