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in opposition to UNCLE GEORGE* And Grandfather in electioneering for hl3 &on? said in his speech that "SNEED was not fit to fill the place in the Senate & SNEED challenged him to fight a dual & Grandfather accepted it5 & ?when on his way at esrly dawn Grandfather was on his way. to the rendezvous8 lie was shot in the back & fell from his horse? The horse stayed around him quite a while & then went hcme0 The Drs0 & seconds ?whom had gone ahead wait-eel & as tha principals had not come^ they also went to see what had delayed vhSKo Some of the negro servants sew the horse at the gate and went out to get him & sa?? there was blood on the saddle & reported to Grandmother & she sent the Overseer & servants to go & n.ook for hiza= They followed the tracks of the hors? & found him dead in the road & trades of the horse where he had grasecl around him0 The sheriff & various others in the County went to SIIEED*S home & he & his overseer had disappeared & hi3 nife said had left home "before daylight & she didn?t knot? fehere he was"o V?ell a strange ccin~ cidenceg esrae up to one of his great Grandchildren in the 4th generation0 Ip when e girl of 23 years old went to Texas with some friend3 from New OrleansD Ls08 and one day that summer my frieM9 LUCY KAYES was sitting on the front gallery & & young, man rode up to the gate in a biiggy loaded with tintsare & csiae in & asked if we "wished to purchase any kitchen ware"0 LUCT told him yes & went out & bought ? lot of it in0 He looked very vans. & tired & I asked him if he?a like & drink of water? & ^ent in & brought a pitcher of ?col ground cistern water & e glass0 He drank several glasses
&	remarked how cool & good it wasQ So I asked him ho* far he?d driven that day & he said from the County belov? us0 Then I asked hixa his name*, He said SAMJEL SNEED? then I asked where did your great Grandfather come from & he replied "Onslow County"? 1U Carolina0 Then I immediately knew that he ^as the great Grandson of the man that had killed my great Grandfather, COLONEL GEORGE MITCHELLo When he left I said "LUCY that man qs great grandfather 8 killed ray great grandfather"e She said Y?hy EMMA didn4t you tell him so9 & I told her it 'sould probably have made him unhappy to have heard his great ?andfather was a murderer *t. he evidently hadn?t ever heard about it"0


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