Found yet another mention of my ancestor Welcome Wilhelm. He and his victim, Willie Berry, are in the fourth paragraph:
I couldn't crop just the paragraph about my mother's great-grandfather. Had to share the whole article.
It is so verrrry Texas, amirite?
My mother had a faint memory of hearing her elders discussing this event.
She thought her grandfather Edgar might have witnessed the shooting.
Or that Welk's family may have seen the killing. She wasn't certain.
I hope not! Edgar would have been 13 years old, and the eldest of Welk and Mary's seven children. No child should witness that.
Do you know more about that sad day in November 1882?
-- New Orleans' Times-Picayune, published November 13, 1882, on page 2.