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Note for: James D. Elsberry, 18 Apr 1849 -
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Individual Note: Killed by a unknown assasain who called him to the door at night and shot him.
He was unmarried. It is supposed he was mistaken for someone else. He owned a hotel in Okolona, Ark.
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Note for: Margaret A Francis Elsberry, 2 Mar 1847 - 26 Nov 1902
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Individual Note: Had eleven children which nine lived to be adults.
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Note for: Mary Narcissa Elsberry, 17 Jun 1851 - 18 Jul 1928
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Individual Note: Nickname was Molly
MARRIAGE: Prescott, Nevada, Ark, 21 Sep 1875
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Note for: John Luckie Elsberry, 22 Apr 1854 - 16 Aug 1885
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Individual Note: Was a peace officer at Valentine TX and was killed while on duty.
The following was found in the El Paso Times dated 17 Aug 1895:
"News reached this city last night of a tragedy at Valentine, the particulars of which a TIMES reporter obtained from Superintendent Martin. Last night at 10 o'clock, two masked men rode up to the rear of Kusy & Co.'s store, hitched their horses and walked around to the front door. J.J. Edwarde, headman for Kusy & Co, was sitting in the store, talking to Mr. Martin. The masked robbers walked in and commanding the two men to hold up their hands said: " The first thing we want is two boxes of cartridges". After helping themselves to the cartridges, they compelled Mr. Edgar to open the safe so they could get at his cash, and of course their orders were obeyed. It is not known how much cash they secured.
A boy sleeping in the rearof the store (can't read next few words) commanded Edgar and MArtin to hold up their hands, he (the boy) slipped out the back and running to the depot notified Capt. Dick Elsberry, the watchman. Elsberry started at once for the store and join by a deputy sheriff named Triplett and another man. They met the robbers coming out the back gate and Elsberry ordered them to halt. THe robbers opened fire on ELsberry, who returned it. Twenty shots were fired when Elsberry fell mortally wounded and died in a few minutes thereafter. When Elsberry fell, the robbers mounted their horses and rode away.
The agent at Valentine wired Superintendent MArtin relative to the affair and Mr. Martin sent a special train to Ysleta to take the rangers to Valentine to catch the robbers. One of the robbers was six feet high, weighed 180 pounds and wore dark clothes. THe other was about five feet high, weighed about 130 pounds, was in his shirt sleeves, wore a white shirt, light coloerd pants and a small dark felt hat.
Dick Elsberry was formerly captian of the S.P. watchmen in this city and had many friends here. He was a brave man. Captain Elsberry's pistol only had one cartridge in it when it was picked up wherre he fell, so he must of fired five at the robbers."
Because of other information regarding John Luckie death in Valentine, Texas, the above is probably the same person. Where the nickname of Dick came from has not been found as of 6/2002.
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Note for: Marcus (Monroe) Lafayette Elsberry, 22 Apr 1854 - 18 Aug 1884
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Individual Note: Was a Twin to John Luckie Elsberry. Was killed while asleep by a unknown
Assasain. Unmarried. Location unknown.
The family bible belonging to Sarah Elizabeth Elsberry and in 1975 was owned
by John Alexander shows that the name of of one of the twins was Marcus not
Monroe. Can't prove either way.
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Note for: Richard Wood Pentecost, 20 Nov 1788 - 5 Nov 1857
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Burial: Date: 1857
Place: Pentecost Church, Barrow, Georgia, United States
Individual Note: Pentecost Bible
Gone to Georgia 975.8 W2s pg 170
MARRIAGE:Jackson County, GA. 975.8145 V2i, pg 27
1850 Census,Jackson Co.,GA. 975.8145 X2b, pg48
Richard Wood Pentecost was dark and extremely tall, being described by his widow in her pension application as having been six feet, six or seven inches in height, with black hair and black eyes and of dark completion. Having been born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, he came to Georgia as a child and remained here all of his life. Some of his childhood years were spent in Hancock County where is brother John Wesley was born. He volunteered for service during the War of 1812 at Jefferson, the county seat of Jackson County, Georgia. At Fort Hawkins on the Oemulgee, he was sworn into the service on August 25, 1813 and commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the company of Captain Wilson McKinney, First Regiment of Georgia Militia under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Groves. Upon termination of his enlistment, Richard was honorably discharged from futher service at Milledgeville, Georgia on March 5, 1814.
Richard returned home to Jackson County and resumed farming, also conducting extensive lumber business. The court minutes of Jackson County show numerous receipts for lumber and bridge timber purchased from him.
Richard was named Justice of the Peace in 1813 in the Georgia Military
District 246. He served as Representative to the Georgia State Legislature
from 1834-1837. Then he seved as a court judge in Jackson County in 1837.
When a Jackson County school system was inagurated by the Act of 1827, he was the new Commissioner to the Board. He was re-elected in 1846 to the State
Legislature and served a term for two years.
Richard is buried in the Old Pentecost Church Cemetery in Barrow County,
Georgia. His headstone reads:"A husband dear, A tender friend, lies buried
here."