Re: David Kell murdered by John Ridge
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In reply to:
David Kell murdered by John Ridge
Linda Sue Hollingsworth 10/08/00
Found mention of killing in a bio sketch of John Rollin Ridge...."In 1849, however, Cherokee affairs again intruded.He (Ridge) was involved in a fight over a horse with David Kell, a man from the Cherokee faction still hostile to his family.Ridge shot and killed his adversary and was forced to flee.Early the next year, he joined a wagon train for California, never to return to the Cherokee Nation."
found at:www.anpa.ualr.edu/dtp/Bio.html
Was searching Kells, believe one of my ancestors was a Kell.