William Patton

Death by Force

William Delano Patton, a 32-year-old male city marshal in Fayetteville, Arkansas, lived his final years under the shadow of a feud that had been simmering across the hills and river bottoms of northwest Arkansas since the Civil War. By the summer of 1881 he was a seasoned lawman with a wife, Sarah Irene “Jimmie,” and five young children at home, part of a community still trying to steady itself after years of violence and lawlessness.

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City Marshal William D. Patton

City Marshal William D. Patton | Fayetteville, AR - Official Website

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