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Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Genealogy - births/Cantrell/Dillard/Talley/Linn-Lynn
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:45:53 +0000


Beth,
Boy did you jar a memory from the cobwebs of my mind. I can remember standing at one of the cemeteries and my grandmother pointed and said he was murdered for fooling around with another man's wife. That was 40 years ago. My grandmother was Lilah Dillard and her mother was a Cantrell. I am not sure where the Nancy Jane Dillard fits in.

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> Guys,
> Vera's responsible, she got me started on this.
>
> In a message dated 6/17/2005 8:32:43 PM Central Standard Time,
> writes: Cantrell, Elijah Belle b. 25 Jul 1884 Izard County
> mother
> Nancy Jane Dillard+++
>
> I must have missed a bunch of stuff that had been posted previously on some
> of the other lists about some of this family.
>
> Now, I don't think that I had ever seen this documentation for this daughter
> of Elijah Cantrell, son of George S. Cantrell (as far as I have). I had
> always seen her named just Belle Cantrell and also, shown in some documents as
> Belle Talley.
>
> Now, if I am remembering this all correctly this was supposedly the first
> marriage for both Nancy Jane Dillard and her husband, Elijah Cantrell, son of
> George S. Cantrell. It was early in their marriage, Nancy was pregnant with the
> first born, Elijah Cantrell was murdered. The story was always that he had been
> playing around with someone else's wife---you all may remember the questions
> from the Linn/Lynn family that abruptly removed from Izard to OK and expressed
> their thinking about the spelling change of their name. I suspect that was
> Elijah's murderer and so do they.
>
> Now, what I don't think I have connected is this, Was the murderer ever
> prosecuted?
> Anyone remember reading anything about this anywhere?
>
> Would anyone have a death record of Elijah Cantrell, son of George S.
> Cantrell?
> Marriage to Nancy Jane Dillard?
>
> If I have remembered correctly, Nancy Jane Dillard later married Isham
> Cornelius Talley and moved away. Seems like it was to Texas but I am not sure
> that
> they stayed there. Seems to me that Isham Cornelius Talley died somewhere in
> OK. I think that they had a number of other children. Would anyone reading
> have contact with this family?
>
> Any of the Dillard researchers have information on Nancy Jane Dillard's
> family group?
> Thanks for any input on this bunch!
> Beth
>
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