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"KILLING OF SUMMERLIN
The following account of the affair is from the Troy Journal:
Our little town has just been in stir over the excitement of the
shooting of our night-watchman, by one Mr. Barksdale, which took place
two days ago.  The difficulty occurred about the nightman being accused
by Mr. Barksdale of having been on one occasion too drunk to be on duty,
which Mr. Summerlin, watchman, denied with oath attached, when Mr.
Barksdale fired on him twice.  The first shot passed through Mr.
Summerlin just below his heart and perhaps through the upper part of
bowels and out the left side of his backbone.  He lived a little over
twenty-four hours.  His father took the remains to Bradleyton to be
buried.
He leaves an aged father and several brothers and sister, a wife and
six little children to mourn his untimely death.
Mr. Barksdale was arrested and taken to jail to await his trial.  He
went off with the officers one night and Mr. Summerlin was carried along
the same road on the next night, one dead and the other alive, both going
to meet the impending judgement before them.
Oh! How sad are some of the happenings of life.  'In the midst of
life we are in death.' "  (1)
(1)  The Luverne Journal, Thursday, 16 Sep 1897, p. 3. Microfilm: Located
in the Alabama Archives and History, Montgomery, AL.
"PARTICULARLY PERTAING TO THE PEOPLE OF CRENSHAW COUNTY
The grand jury found an indictment for murder in the first degree
against Mr. Barksdale for the killing of Mr. R. W. Summerlin.  Judge
Tyson ordered a special venire of 50 jurors drawn and set the case for
next week."  (1)
(1) The Luverne Journal, Thursday, 16 Sep 1897, p. 3. Microfilm: Located
in the Alabama Archives and History, Montgomery, AL.
1920 Crenshaw Co., AL (Bradleyton)
Enumeration Dst. 71
page 18B, fam. #350
John T. SUMERLIN    71 (wid.) AL SC AL
Lula              45 (da.)
Hattie            42 (da.)
Clevelan       35 (son)
Barrett(?)     36 (son)
Loueler(?)    13 (g'da.)
Hubert          11 (g'son)
page 19A, fam. #355 & 356
Levon(?) L(?) SUMERLIN  36
& wife & children
Read W. SUMERLIN    65 (wid.)  AL SC AL
(living alone)
Forty years earlier, in 1880, we find these same folks in Crenshaw Co.:
1880 Crenshaw Co., AL (Jordan)
page 391A
Hillman LEWIS    70 GA SC GA
Elizabeth                64 GA NC GA  wife
Thompson             23 AL GA GA  son
[I'll bet these are the parents & bro. of Dixon Hillman LEWIS]
page 391B
John SUMERLIN    56 AL SC SC
Nancy                       57 AL GA GA wife
Mary                        25 AL AL AL  da.
Reed                        22 AL AL AL  son
Benjamin                18 AL AL AL  son
Jane                         20 AL AL AL  da.
Gordon                   12 AL AL AL  son
Thomas SUMERLIN  27 AL AL AL
Rachel                         26 AL SC SC
Herbert                        06 AL AL AL
Lula                             04 AL AL AL
Smith                           02  AL AL AL
Hattie                          01  AL AL AL