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Submitted: 6/29/16 • Approved: 8/11/20 • Last Updated: 8/14/20 • R1146971-G0-S3
Glendal 27 Jul 1936 - 06 Apr 1972
Peggy 31 Jan 1937 - Pre-need/living
Marriage: 03 May 1954
Killed In Action. Western District Deputy Sheriff Glendal Ray Archer, 35, County Sheriff Douglas Batey, 49, Deputy Sheriff Troy Key were killed by shotgun blasts.
Glendal Ray Archer husband of Peggy Archer. Glendal Ray Archer son of Winford Marron Archer and Hazel Wiseman Archer.
"The Clay County Sheriff's department was practically wiped out during an early morning shoot out at McDougal last Thursday when County Sheriff Douglas Batey, 49, and Western District Deputy Sheriff Glendal Ray Archer, 35, were killed by shotgun blasts and Deputy Troy Key, 47, was seriously wounded, when they attempted to arrest Elbert Ray (Bert) Grissom, 52, at his home which is approximately one half mile northwest of McDougal. Corning Chief of Police Ed Smith arrested Grissom, the man accused of the shootings, a short time later.
Troy Key, 49, deputy sheriff, who was critically injured by a shotgun blast in the back in a shoot out at McDougal on Thursday, April 6, died at a Memphis hospital early Saturday morning.
Gene [Ed?] Smith has this week resigned as a member of the City of Corning Police Department to accept appointment as Western District Deputy Sheriff, a vacancy brought by the recent death of Glen Archer.
Elbert Ray (Bert) Grissom, 52, of McDougal, was convicted on Thursday of last week of three counts of first-degree murder in the slaying of three Clay County law enforcement officers and sentenced to life imprisonment on each charge."
Clay County Courier Narratives 1953 - 1972 Submitted by Danny Moore
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