Blake School History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="012c8203.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0117e9b3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Blake School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org"><U><B>home</B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org"><U><B> </B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blake"><U><B>Blake School</B></U></A></div> <div> SCHOOL CAUSE OF A CARTHAGE TRAGEDY  </div> <div>   A neighborhood feud over the location and name of a country school </div> <div> house resulted yesterday in a fight in which Lee Duncan, living near</div> <div> Carthage, shot and killed his uncle, S. F. Duncan, and in turn was</div> <div> perhaps fatally wounded, the Duncans are farmers, ten miles east of</div> <div> Carthage. </div> <div>   The shooting occurred on the roadway near S. F Duncan's</div> <div> home. Witness say Lee Duncan was waiting for his uncle and when he</div> <div> drove up opened fire with a revolver. The old man armed with a</div> <div> repeating shotgun returned the fire. S. F. Duncan was shot five times</div> <div> and the nephew three times. The nephew was taken to a hospital at</div> <div> Carthage and it is believed he cannot recover.</div> <div>    The school controversy has raged in the particular locality three</div> <div> years and caused considerable litigation and ill feeling among friends</div> <div> and families. A conflagration (fire) destroyed  the old schoolhouse and the</div> <div> directors desired to change the location and name of the new school.</div> <div> Then the trouble arose. The uncle it is asserted, accused his nephew</div> <div> of setting fire to the old building.</div> <div>    S. F. Duncan, just before he died, made a statement in which he</div> <div> said his nephew fired the first shot. The dead man was 56 years old</div> <div> and a bachelor. His friends assert he was on his way to Carthage to</div> <div> have authorities put his nephew under peace bond.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Source: THE GALENA EVENING TIMES Tue. Apr. 29, 1913 p1 c2 </I></div> <div> <I>The Cherokee County Genealogy Library at Columbus, contributed by Bob King.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>