F 6. Josiah Ashhurst, Jr., born 1851 in Estill county, Kentucky; was murdered in November, 1865, by a boy named John Dawson. The two boys had gone out hunting together; he was shot from behind twice with a pistol and in the arm and side with a shotgun, and then thrown into Red river, where he was found a few days afterward. Dawson was arrested for the murder and put upon his trial in Powell county, Kentucky.
