BARRETT FAMILY BRANCHES

Mattie Barrett William Bobo
Newspaper Clippings

Information Wanted Sally Harvey, concerning her son James who was owned by Jackson Bobo, who took James from Bastrop [Louisiana ]to Ellis County, Texas, in 1862, and Mrs. Bobo, took him from there to Milligan [actually Millican, in Brazos Co.] on Brazos River. Any information may be sent to his mother, care of Rev. J.R. Fenner, Monroe, La., also about her son Thomas who was in the Union Army, and in 1862 passed through Bastrop - write to her in care of Rev. J.R. Fenner, Monroe, La. "New Orleans Advocate," 25 May 1867, p.3, col.6


Special to the Herald

San Saba, January 14 - A few cases of typhoid fever in town. No deaths,

William Bobo, who killed a man nine years ago in the Beverly settlement, in the southern part of this county, has been arrested in Walker county and will be brought back and tried for the murder."

Reply from Mitch Vetuski about article above: Fits a tale that was told about him. He was traveling to San Saba to stand trial and was accosted by local sheriff and didn't want to be hassled.;Shot the guy in the head, didn't kill him, and then went on to trial and was acquitted.

Miscellaneous Texas Newspaper Abstracts - Deaths, Vol. 2 compiled by: Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff Floyd, Ginny Guinn Parsons, 1995, Heritage Books "The Old Capitol", published at Columbia, TX

Issue 7 Jan 1888

Huntsville Jan 4th. Reliable news reaches here from Madison Co., 30 miles west of here, that a mob of 200 or 300 men went to the town of Madisonville yesterday and shot down one Will Bobo on the public square in presence of the sheriff. The mob went from there to the house of one Red Page and took him out and hanged him. Also, shot Alf. Whiting, it is supposed, fatally. Killed one other party, name unknown.

[3] Sent by Betty Bobo Neiman Published in the Temple Daily Times 1/7/1888

Huntsville, 1-4-1888-Killed by a mob, Bill Bobo and hung was Red Paige and another man; and seriuosly wounded Alf Whitten in Madisonville.

[4] Sent to me by Rex McClurin on 2/20/2000

Galveston Daily News, January 24, 1888 page 4, column 5; from newspaper files (on microfilm) Sterling C. Evans Library Texas A&M; Madisonville County Library Genealogy Dept. 605 South May Madisonville, Tx 77864:

Our citizens, who recently shot BOBO and hung PAGE, met at the court-house in this place and after consultation divided in small companies and visited a number of persons in this county, not for the purpose of injuring them or of giving them notice to leave the county, but to admonish them to become good, civil, law abiding citizens. Those who live at a distance perhaps regard these men who have been compelled by force of circumstances to take the law in their own hands for the time being as desperate men, when in fact they are first-class, clever, honest gentleman; and although they have determined to supress murder and theft in our county, they are as kind and law-abiding gentlemen as Madison County can boast, and if an honest, upright citizen was being imposed upon they would be willing to come to his rescue as they are determined to supress murder and theft, and I have not yet met or heard of a good citizen in the whole county who attaches any sore of blame to them on account of the course they have been driven to pursue in defense of life and property.