BUTTRAM, JOHN - Benton County, Arkansas | JOHN BUTTRAM - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

John BUTTRAM

Buttram Chapel Cemetery
Benton County,
Arkansas

1893 - September 9 1909

*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
September 9, 1909

{from The Pineville Herald, Sept. 3) Lon Kelley, a McDonald county school teacher, son of Wm. D. Kelley, and nephew of ex-sheriff John Kelley of this place, shot and killed John Buttram, one of his pupils, aged about 16 years, at the Bear Hollow school house in White Rock township, at about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The particulars as we learn them are that Kelley, who was teaching the Bear Hollow school, attempted to punish Buttram, who showed fight and struck Kelley in the face with his left hand, at the same time making a pass with his right hand to his hip pocket, whereupon Kelley drew a pistol and shot Buttram three times in the abdomen. Buttram lived until one o’clock this morning when he died. Kelley has not been apprehended and the sheriff’s deputies are scouring the woods in search of him. It is thought he will surrender himself today.

Contributed on 4/10/13 by wfields55
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Submitted: 4/10/13 • Approved: 4/10/13 • Last Updated: 4/13/13 • R861302-G0-S3

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