Posted By:	Bob Thompson
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	Subject:	Re: Bickerstaff Marriages in Monroe County,
	Post Date:	November 18, 2000 at 06:42:43
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	Forum:	Monroe County, MS Genealogy Forum
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A couple of items on one or more of the Johnson Bickerstaffs from my Walton family files: 1. A letter from Charles W. Walton to his sister, Elizabeth Ann Walton Hall, dated October 22, 1845 (copy in the Walton file at Evans Memorial Library) states: “All news was Johnson Bickerstaff shot Thomas M. Walton at Cotton Gin about middle of last August through the neck and killed him. I can hardly tell what it was about only done little case in justice courts Bickerstaff was bound over for tryal at our [Circuit] Court." 2. A letter from Joanna L. Walton, Cotton Gin Port MS to her son, Jesse Walton at Lagrange College in Franklin County, AL dated Feb. 6, 1837 (this letter is in the Hugh Miller-Susan Walton Miller papers at the Miss. Dept. of Archives and History) states: "We are all well but I have one more melancholy Death to inform you of--on Tuesday Evening last Johnson Bickerstaff & wife crossed the River between susnset and dark for the purpose of bringing some trees they had got on the other side--the canoe they were in was very totering and as they returned it struck a snag & turned them both out--he made every effort in his power to save her but in vain--and Barely escaped with his own life--after great search her remains were found on the next day."