Jailer Marvin Conover

Death by Force

In the early spring of 1904, the community of Columbia, Kentucky, was shaken by the violent death of one of its own. Marvin Conover, a 26-year-old white male serving as a Deputy Jailer for Adair County, was killed in the line of duty. His life was cut short on March 29, 1904, while he was attempting to serve a warrant.

The events leading to Conover's death began when he accompanied a deputy sheriff to a home in the northern part of the county to serve a warrant on a man for failure to app ...Read More

Deputy Jailer Marvin Conover, Adair County Regional Jail, Kentucky