Front page of The Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, on November 9, 1882.
Highlighted in yellow on page 4 of this paper is a brief account of Willie Berry's death at the hand of my maternal 2x Great-Grandfather, Welcome Wilhelm.
Other articles have mentioned different locations for the murder scene (as posted elsewhere on this blog) and used initials only for the given names of the two men. Dear editors, please do not use initials. Ever.
I have since made acquaintance with many Texas records in search of Mr. "W. Berry." #manyverymany
So on this lovely April day of pandemic shelter-in-place I am HAPPY to have learned Mr. Willie Berry's full name.
With a name and possible birth location, I hope to learn more of William or Willie Berry's past. Did he have family in Texas? If married, was his wife pregnant with their eighth child when he was killed, as was my GG-Grandmother Mary Wilhelm? I hope to find him in a Kentucky census. Let's hope "Willie" wasn't a nickname.
How on earth did he get crosswise with Welk Wilhelm?
Let me re-phrase that.
What on earth provoked Welk to shoot Willie Berry?
Source: The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1882, newspaper, November 9, 1882; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth462323/m1/4/: accessed April 2, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; .