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State of Tennessee
Davidson County

Personally appeared before me Lewis Prowell (colored) who being duly sworn deposed and says as follows.

That he lives in the 4th. District Hickman County, State of Tennessee and that on the 12th. inst about 5 o'clock AM six mounted men appeared in front of his house, and demanded feed for their horses, and on being informed by his wife that she had no feed they requested to be furnished with something to eat for themselves, that he then left the house for fear of getting into difficulty with these men and did not return to the same until he heard several shots fired, and that on arriving at his house he found his wife lying dead in the floor that two balls penetrated her lungs.

That his three daughters aged respectively 21-18, and 14 years, also were present when the murder was committed, told him that it was the avowed intention of the Murderers to Kill every 

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