A few months back, I wrote a couple blog posts about one of my family's black sheep, my great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Shelton (1822 - ABT 1874). Jacob was killed by John Dove, the brother of Jacob's third wife. John Dove went to prison and, according to Dove family stories, was killed trying to escape to visit a dying daughter.
I was exploring a little at FamilySearch.org the other day, and decided to browse through the "Index of Official Register of Inmates Vol. 1, no. 1-9073, 1866-1889." I jumped over to the last names beginning with D and pretty quickly found these two pages (which I've very roughly stitched together to create this image, with the headings for each column at the bottom of the image:
Below are enlargements for the relevant information. The column headings for these sections are Reg[istration number], Name, Year Received, Crime, and Yrs/mo [length of sentence]. John Dove was received into the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1877 for murder with a life sentence.
The page on the right-hand side had column headings for Expiration of Sentence, Where Sentenced, and Remarks (if any). John Dove's sentence did not expire (since it was life), and he was sentenced in Winn Parish (where the crime of murdering my great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Shelton occurred).
Under Remarks, it says he "Died Sept. 3rd 1878." The circumstances of his death are not described. It may very well be that he was in fact shot while trying to go see his dying daughter Julia, as a Dove family story contends.
Sources:
"Louisiana, State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-24842-38169-35?cc=1931391&wc=M6PZ-NWL:227357201,227511501 : accessed 11 Jul 2014), Correctional institution records > Index of official register of inmates vol 1 no 1-9073 1866-1889 > image 104 of 577; citing State Archives, Baton Rouge.
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"Louisiana, State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-24843-335-16?cc=1931391&wc=M6PZ-NWL:227357201,227511501 : accessed 11 Jul 2014), Correctional institution records > Index of official register of inmates vol 1 no 1-9073 1866-1889 > image 105 of 577; citing State Archives, Baton Rouge.
© Amanda Pape - 2014 - click here to e-mail me.
I was exploring a little at FamilySearch.org the other day, and decided to browse through the "Index of Official Register of Inmates Vol. 1, no. 1-9073, 1866-1889." I jumped over to the last names beginning with D and pretty quickly found these two pages (which I've very roughly stitched together to create this image, with the headings for each column at the bottom of the image:
Below are enlargements for the relevant information. The column headings for these sections are Reg[istration number], Name, Year Received, Crime, and Yrs/mo [length of sentence]. John Dove was received into the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1877 for murder with a life sentence.
The page on the right-hand side had column headings for Expiration of Sentence, Where Sentenced, and Remarks (if any). John Dove's sentence did not expire (since it was life), and he was sentenced in Winn Parish (where the crime of murdering my great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Shelton occurred).
Under Remarks, it says he "Died Sept. 3rd 1878." The circumstances of his death are not described. It may very well be that he was in fact shot while trying to go see his dying daughter Julia, as a Dove family story contends.
Sources:
"Louisiana, State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-24842-38169-35?cc=1931391&wc=M6PZ-NWL:227357201,227511501 : accessed 11 Jul 2014), Correctional institution records > Index of official register of inmates vol 1 no 1-9073 1866-1889 > image 104 of 577; citing State Archives, Baton Rouge.
AND
"Louisiana, State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-24843-335-16?cc=1931391&wc=M6PZ-NWL:227357201,227511501 : accessed 11 Jul 2014), Correctional institution records > Index of official register of inmates vol 1 no 1-9073 1866-1889 > image 105 of 577; citing State Archives, Baton Rouge.
© Amanda Pape - 2014 - click here to e-mail me.
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