Person:Clara Rash (3)

BIOGRAPHY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~standridge/crash.html Clara Rash married Francis Marion Renfroe. They moved to Ok. and he was murdered or died in an accident near the railroad there. The truth was never determined.

BIOGRAPHY: Clara Rash is the daughter of Daniel Rash and Julia Ann Smith. When Daniel and Julia died on 12-8-1895 in Madison Co., AK, Leon and two of his sisters, Clara and Myrtle were taken in by Wade Blassingame Aday and Susan Cossey. Perhaps, Susan was in some way related to Julia Ann Smith. I found Julia Ann with her parents as a baby and her mother's name was Susan. . Francis is the son of Joshua Benjamin Renfroe, who is the son of Joshua and Drucilla Jane Barnes Renfroe. His father, Josh, died during the Civil War. Jane Renfroe remarried to a Unknown Moore and William Manuel. Joshua married J. Anna Brown (daughter of John Dempsey Brown and Anna Crouch Brown) on Feb. 23, 1879 in Pope County, Ar. Josh and Anna lived near Appleton, Ar. until the 1920s when they moved to Webber Falls, Ok. and in the 1930s they moved on to near Sacramento, Ca. where their grandson said he remembered them living in a tent city and doing farm labor.

BIOGRAPHY: The article from the Courier--WILL RENFROW MURDERED George and Marion Church Also Wounded in the Fight Which Occurred near Hector Thursday Night

BIOGRAPHY: As a result of a general row, doubless superinduced by an excessive flow of bad booze, another mound has been erected in a Pope county cemetery and the man charged with the crime awaits his trial in the county jail when he must either prove his jsutification or accept the verdict of a jury of his own selection. The case to which we allude is the killing of Will Renfrow by one George Church, Thursday night of last week. The murder took place at a small school houseat the forks of two creeks some seven or eight miles north of Hector, where citizens of the community had gathered for the purpose of witnessing a magic lantern exhibition.

BIOGRAPHY: During the progress of the show, or just at its close some six or seven young men of the community, said to be more or less under the infulence of "mountain dew" or blind tiger goods, engaged in a general row. Among them were George Church, Bud Renfroe, Larkin Mathis, Riley Church, and perhaps others. Whether Will Renfrow was a participant of the fuss or only interfered to quell the disturbance will doubtless be a matter of contention between the attorneys of the opposition sides. It is not disputed however that he was shot three times and instantly killed, and George Church was arrested, charged with the offense. A coroner's inquest before 'squire A. R. Jones was promptly held and Church was committed to jail to await an examining trial, which will take place before Squire H. H. Baird of this city, commencing at 10 o'clock this (Thursday) morning.

BIOGRAPHY: At the cornore's inquest it was brought out that several shots in all were fired, probably six, one fo which accidentally struck Marion Church, an uncle of the defendant, in the lower part of the leg or ankle and more or less shattering the bone. George Church is said to have lost the tip of one of his fingers by a ball fired by someone engaged in the melee. In advance of the examining trial, however, we do not care to undertake to relateany facts in connection therewith as any information recived would doubtless be of a partisan character and fail to state the real facts as they will eventually be proven in the courts.

BIOGRAPHY: Note by Betty: I could not find in the following weeks what happened in this case. I will continue to search. I can go to the Pope County Court House and search the records there. I do know that Will was laid to rest in the Forks of the Creek Cemetery. His young bride gave birth to a female child sometime after Sept. 1904.

MEDIA: A0141 - Clara Rash (Raised by Wade B. Aday)