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From: "Mary E. Stigler" <>
Subject: Re: [MOMILLER] Bilyeu/Maylee - death notice
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:30:09 -0600


Thanks much for this obit.
Mary

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Subject: [MOMILLER] Bilyeu/Maylee - death notice


The Iberia Sentinel, June 1936

Everett Bilyeu (spelled Belyeu on the death certificate), 52,
> farmer of near St. Anthony, was shot by Everett Stark, his neighbor, at
> noon Sunday and died almost instantly from a charge of No. 2 shot fired at
> close range from a 10-gauge double-barrel shotgun. The charge struck
> Bilyeu just below the heart and tore a two-inch hole in Bilyeu's abdomen,
> death coming
> almost instantly.
>
> Stark and Bilyeu lived on the same farm, the Taylor Shelton
> place. Stark at the old building down on Wimmer Creek and Bilyeu at the
> log house on that part of the farm known as the George Clark place, which
> had, in recent years, been purchased and added to the larger creek farm.
>
> According to information available, Stark and his wife had on
> various occasions in the past, been quarreling. On Saturday, Mrs. Stark
> left her home and went on the hill to the Bilyeu house. Later in the
> night, Stark came to the Bilyeu home and demanded that Bilyeu give him a
> gun which belonged to Mr. Shelton. Bilyeu refused, and Stark claims that
> Bilyeu fired the gun at him as he was in the act of entering his car, a
> number of the shot striking the car, but not injuring Stark.
>
> Then early Sunday morning Stark came up to the Bilyeu home and
> both parties apologized. Later the same morning Bilyeu took with him a
> bucket of scraps to feed his dog which he had loaned to Stark, and went
> down to the Stark home. This was the last time Bilyeu's family saw him
> alive.
>
> About 12:30 Stark approached the home of a neighbor, Joe M.
> Bax, and told him that he had shot Bilyeu, and said he wanted to call
> Frank Burks of Iberia, deputy sheriff, and give up. Burks then called
> Sheriff Lafe King, who went to the scene of the tragedy.
>
> Sheriff King found the body of Bilyeu lying in a draw between
> the garage and the machinery shed. He was lying on his back, his right
> hand over his head and clutching his cap, while at his side was a
> pitchfork and near his feet was the bucket of scraps, undisturbed. There
> were no eye-witnesses to the shooting.
>
> Stark told the Sheriff that Bilyeu threatened him with a pitchfork,
> and that he fired while standing on the approach to the garage, which was
> a distance of about eight or ten feet from Bilyeu.
> King said further that Stark had phoned to him Saturday night
> asking him to come down and settle a family quarrel, but that he had
> refused to do so unless Stark would issue a warrant.
>
> Stark was brought to Tuscumbia and lodged in jail awaiting this
> report of the Coroner, Dr. J.R. Ellison. The inquest will be held at St.
> Elizabeth Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock of this week.
>
> The body of the victim was taken to Iberia by Adams & Casey,
> undertakers and burial was held at the Bilyeu Cemetery Tuesday morning at
> 10 o'clock.
>
> Bilyeu was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Bilyeu and was born
> and reared on Humphrey's Creek, eight miles east of Tuscumbia. He was
> married (his wife being a daughter of John Maylee), and they had three or
> four children, one son being in CCC camp in California. John and Arthur
> Bilyeu of the Humphrey's Creek community, and Sgt. Roscoe Bilyeu,
> instructor
> in the Army school at Ft. Benning, Ga. are brothers.
>
>
>
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