Hometown Heroes: Marshal Hiram Gregory
End of Watch: April 23, 1926 Burnside City Marshal Hiram Gregory was 49 or 50 years old when he was gunned down in 1926 while attempting...
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Each month we dig deep into Pulaski County's past to learn more about violent crimes that impacted our society. We select a murder or a mystery and tell the story in our Hometown Murders & Mysteries blogposts below. We also blog about products that interest us and happenings in our local community.
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Hometown Heroes: Marshal John C. Coomer
End of Watch: October 1, 1913 On August 18, 1913, an alleged moonshiner shot and killed a Burnside Councilman, John Fitzgerald, and...
Hometown Heroes: Sheriff Samuel Wilson Catron
End of watch: April 13, 2002 Today, our community looks back twenty years and mourns one of the greatest losses in recent memory. Those...
Hometown Heroes: Constable William F. Heath & Magistrate Andrew Jackson Beatty
End of watch: 1911 "Constable William Heath and Justice of the Peace Andrew Beatty were shot and killed while waiting to serve warrants...
Hometown Heroes: Constable William Bolton
End of watch: 1903 Camp Meetings in Mt. Victory By 1903 the Mt. Victory Camp Meeting had taken place annually for several years and was...
Hometown Heroes: Pulaski County Sheriff John McHargue
End of watch: 1891 The first on our list of fallen Hometown Heroes is Sheriff John McHargue. We don’t know if he was the first officer in...
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