 1887 - 1956 (68 years)
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| Name |
Martha Carter |
| Born |
8 Dec 1887 |
Howell County, Missouri  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
20 Jun 1956 |
Lawrence County, Arkansas |
| Buried |
Aldridge Cemetery Bono, Lawrence County, Arkansas |
| Person ID |
I272008478497 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
9 Jul 2013 |
| Family |
William Alexander Deatherage, b. 8 Nov 1877, Tennessee , d. 18 Sep 1940, Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas (Age 62 years) |
| Married |
28 Jul 1904 |
Fulton County, Arkansas |
| Notes |
Married:
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 about W A Deatherage
Name: W A Deatherage
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1878
Residence: Beall, Fulton, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Mattie Carter
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 18
Spouse's Residence: Salem, Fulton, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 28 Jul 1904
Marriage License Date: 28 Jul 1904
Marriage County: Fulton
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1290016
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 about W A Deatherage
Name: W A Deatherage
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Birth Year: abt 1878
Residence: Swifton, Jackson, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Mattie Carter
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 33
Spouse's Residence: Swifton, Lawrence, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 30 Jul 1921
Marriage License Date: 30 Jul 1921
Marriage County: Lawrence
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1290717
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| Children |
| | 1. Ruby Deatherage, b. 2 Sep 1909, Fulton County, Arkansas , d. 20 Oct 1998, Stone County, Arkansas (Age 89 years) |
| | 2. William Deatherage, b. 3 Nov 1917, Arkansas , d. 15 May 1975, Lawrence County, Arkansas (Age 57 years) |
| + | 3. Tillman Edward Deatherage, b. 10 May 1922, Arkansas , d. 12 Mar 1999, Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas (Age 76 years) |
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| Last Modified |
9 Jul 2013 |
| Family ID |
F246729424281 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- 1910 Census Mammoth Spring, Fulton, Arkansas as Mallie DEATHERAGE
1920 Census Glass, Jackson, Arkansas as Martha DETHRIDGE
1930 Census Marion, Lawrence, Arkansas as Mat DEATHERAGE
1940 Census Promised Land, Lawrence, Arkansas as Matt DEATHERAGE
- Homer Deatherage Murder
14 Oct 1920 , West Plains Journal
HOMER DEATHERAGE KILLED
Ray Holt of the Bly neighborhood came in from Swifton, Arkansas Wednesday evening and reports that Homer Deatherage, of near Bly, was shot to death Tuesday morning at the home of his brother whom he was visiting. Deatherage and Holt recently went to Arkansas to pick cotton and Deatherage decided to go over and spend the night with his brother. About daylight Tuesday morning Deatherage went out to milk leaving his visiting brother asleep. The wife reports that while her husband was at the barn a strange man, wearing a black veil over his face came in, took her husband's gun out of the rack over the door, shot the sleeping man in the back and ran out through the field. The wounded man died instantly. The authorities are making an investigation as Deatherage is not known to have had an enemy on earth.
- Mrs Mattie Deatherage accused of Murder of Homer Deatherage
21 Oct 1920 , West Plains Journal
A coroner's jury at Swifton, Arkansas has declared that Homer Deatherage came to his death at the home of his brother, Will Deatherage, at the hands of Mrs. Mattie Deatherage or some person known to her.
The testimony she gave before the coroner's jury was rehashed. The article also said the statement around her former home (in Howell County) is divided as to her guilt. It was stated that no plausible motive has been advanced.
- Mrs Deatherage acquitted
Feb 1921 , Howell County Gazette
A jury in the Jackson County Circuuit Court at Newport, Arkansas last week acquitted Mrs. Mattie Deatherage, formerly Miss Mattie Carter of Howell County after a thrilling trial on charges of murdering her brother in law, Homer Deatherage of Bly, Howell County, Missouri on October 13, last.
There was only circumstantial evidence against the woman. Homer Deatherage had just come from Howell County to pick cotton during the winter. He left his family at Bly and went to his brother's home. the next morning as he was asleep in bed he was shot and killed.
Mattie Deatherage insisted all along that while she was preparing breakfast on the fateful morning, a masked assassin entered the room, took a shotgun from the rack above the door and shot Homer while he lay in bed. Mrs. Deatehrage could not fill bond and was lodged in jail on October 31. She has been in jail since that time.
These excerpts are taken from Howell County Missouri Postmaster and their communities, Volume One, Page 69
by Deb McCary, member of the Random Acts of Geneologic Kindness.
- Mrs Deatherage Not Guilty
17 Feb 1921 , West Plains Journal
Mrs. Mattie Deatherage was cleared of the charge of killing her brother in law, Homer Deatherage last week. The crime occurred last Fall at Swifton, Arkansas and Mrs. Deatherage was tried last week at Newport Arkansas. When first arrested she declared that the nurder was committed by a masked stranger, but at her trial she testified that her husband, Will Deatherage, killed his brother because of jealousy, and claimed that she and the victim had been sweethearts before her marriage.
Will Deatherage has not been indicted.
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