Person:John Elliott (82)

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John Milton Elliott, Esq.
b.16 May 1820 Scott County, Virginia
d.26 Mar 1879 Kentucky
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m. 1812
  1. James Winfield Scott ElliottAbt 1815 - 1857
  2. John Milton Elliott, Esq.1820 - 1879
  3. Mary Jane Elliott1825 - 1915
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Name John Milton Elliott, Esq.
Gender Male
Birth[2] 16 May 1820 Scott County, Virginia
Death[1][2] 26 Mar 1879 Kentuckyassassinated in front of the Capital Hotel by fellow judge Col. Thomas Buford, Esq.
Burial[1] Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grave Recorded, in Kentucky Historical Society (Frankfort, Kentucky). The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society)
    7:32, Jan 1909.

    ... A tall white monument surmounted by the figures of "Justice blind-folded" marks the grave of Judge Elliott, who was so foully assassinated by Buford in front of the Capital Hotel. On the plea of insanity Buford was sent to the Lakeland Asylum, where after a few years he escaped to Indiana, and no attempt was ever made to bring him back to Kentucky. ...

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Milton Elliott, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    ... On March 26, 1879 Judge Elliott and fellow jurist Thomas Hines left the Kentucky State House, when they met a judge from Henry County, Kentucky, Colonel Thomas Buford. Buford's late sister had lost her land to pay back a debt of $20,000; Elliott had ruled against her in a court proceeding in which she had attempted to save the property.
    After Hines had turned and walked away from Elliott, Buford asked Elliott whether he wanted to go on a snipe hunt, then shot him point-blank with a double-barreled shotgun filled with twelve buckshot, as he had sworn on his sister's grave he would do. Hines inspected the body as Buford turned himself in to a deputy sheriff who had come to see where the shotgun blast came from ...

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    John Milton Elliott
    BIRTH 20 May 1820
    Scott County, Virginia, USA
    DEATH 26 Mar 1879 (aged 58)
    Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, USA
    BURIAL
    Frankfort Cemetery
    Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, USA

    US Congressman, Confederate Congressman, Judge, Murder Victim. He was a member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives 1847 and 1860. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Kentucky for the 6th district from 1853 to 1859. Then became a delegate from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress from 1861 to 1862. He was then elected to be a representative for the state of Kentucky to the Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865. He became a state court judge from 1868 to 1874. Then served as a justice on the Kentucky state supreme court from 1876 to 1879. He was murdered by Col. Thomas Buford in front of the Capitol Hotel in Frankfort, Kentucky.

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7644549/john-milton-elliott

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