Simon Haggard, an 18-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, tragically died on December 25, 1929, in Vernon, Texas. His death was part of a larger tragedy that befell his family. On December 29, 1929, his father, J.H. Haggard, a 56-year-old tenant farmer, and Simon's siblings were found shot to death in their poverty-stricken home. The bodies were discovered by a neighbor, Lewis Rivers, who went to the house to borrow a saw.
The justice of the peace, H.C. Justin, held an inquest at the sce
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