New Notation Added to "Newspaper Account of My G-Grandfather Shooting My G-Grandmother"

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Back in May of 2015 on this blog I wrote about the Newspaper Account of My G-Grandfather Shooting My G-Grandmother.  The original copy given to me was by a Chesley second cousin, mostly identical to the one you see here above.  I confirmed the accuracy of the citation and then published it here.

This week a Walker second cousin shared the above copy with me making sure I had it.  I did.  Well, all except for that last paragraph --

It was not unusual for some to have thought Walker insane.  the high incidence[sic] of insanity in Custer County had prompted the Chief, in 1893, to say "It begans[sic] to look as if we would have to adopt the suggestion of the Norfolk asylum authorities that a fence be placed around Custer County, and our fertile fields and rolling hills be turned into a large asylum for the accomodation[sic] of our insane."

-- It would be interesting to look into this history of Custer County a little farther but what might be really interesting is discovering who added the note?  We might have a clue in the paragraph above, because it was also added to my original.  The paragraph give us the status as of 1907.  There is no reason to believe that date was picked arbitrarily.  So we have a possible clue.


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