Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — Fate Has Pursued This Family. [ARTICLE]

Fate Has Pursued This Family.

Fate has, indeed, pursued the Bartlett family, of Marshall county, Ala. Within a week three of them were murdered and one drowned. George Bartlett, the father, was killed in a quarrel with a nephew on Monday. A week before, Bartlett’s eldest son, John, while going home, was shot and Killed from ambush and robbed of a large sum of money by unknown men. Two days later, another son, Alexander, became Involved in a difficulty with a negro farm laborer, who stabbed him to death near the spot where the father was murdered. Last Saturday, Bartlett’s youngest son, Tom, aged 15, was crossing the Tennesse River, when his skiff was upset and he was drowned.