At Squires Chapel in Stephens County, Texas on November 8, 1898, a fight broke out among several men. Shots were fired. Three men killed. One fatality was Roscoe Phillip McCarty. He had accompanied his older brother, John Franklin McCarty, to help John in his personal fight against the Squires.
May 17, 2019 UPDATE: Here's another article from a Kansas paper with a slightly different take on the November 1898 killings:
Roscoe left behind three children--the youngest was only two. His 31 year old widow, Addie Martha, is my maternal great grand-aunt.
The eldest daughter of Welcome Wilhelm and Mary Ann (Cowan), Addie was no stranger to heartbreak. On this same date just 16 years earlier, yes, on a November 8th, Addie's father had shot a man for insulting his wife. Because he was facing a punishment of hanging for killing Mr. "W. Berry," Welk fled the state. After sending a few letters to his parents, nothing more was heard from him.
John F. McCarty, Roscoe's brother, was found not guilty of murder the next year.
Poor Addie lived but five more years, leaving her children orphaned in 1904.
I appreciate "psfraiser1" on Ancestry for sharing some of the news articles about Roscoe's death. She credits Newspapers.com, from which I also downloaded copies.