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Subject: Huffines.Benjamin.1927.Breckinridge-Hardin-Meade.DEATH


Benjamin Huffines January 24, 1927 
Breckinridge-Hardin-Meade County KyArchives Death


Name:                Huffines, Benjamin
Date Of Death:       January 24, 1927 Time: 9:00am
Place Of Death:      Big Springs, Breckinridge/Meade/Hardin County, Kentucky
Residence:           Big Springs, Breckinridge/Meade/Hardin County, Kentucky
Gender:              Male
Race:                W
Age:                 61 yrs.,  mos.,  ds
Marital Status:      Married
Spouse:              Huffines, Laura Knott
Date Of Birth:       September 24, 1865
Place Of Birth:      Kentucky
Mother's Name:       Thornhill, Elizabeth
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Father's Name:       Huffines, Russ
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Cause Of Death:      Gunshot wound in Abdomen; Homicide
Hospital:            Unavailable
SS Number:           Unavailable
Occupation:          Farmer
Funeral Home:        A. F. Stith; Vine Grove, Hardin County, Kentucky
Doctor:              Unavailable
Coroner:             B. T. Perry; Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky
Informant:           Laura Knott Huffines; Big Springs, Breckinridge/Meade/Hardin County, Kentucky
Date Of Burial:      January 25, 1927
Place Of Burial:     Big Spring United Methodist Church; Big Spring, Breckinridge County, Kentucky
Date Recorded:       March 10, 1927
Source Of Record:    Kentucky State Death Certificate
Certificate No.:     3451



Submitted by: Dana Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001067



Additional Comments:
Court records and newspaper accounts list that Benjamin was shot by his 
daughter Hazel after he made "advances" towards her (according to court 
records, he had prior to this situation made advances towards her).  Laura, the 
wife, had went into town when the fatal shooting took place.  A trial took 
place in which all charges against Hazel were dismissed and she was set free.  
5 months after Benjamin was killed, his widow Laura married Harrison Bewley.  
Laura and both her husbands are buried at Big Spring UMC Cemetery, only Laura 
is buried next to her second husband.  Benjamin is buried alone, his children 
buried in spots around the county.

My grandmother, niece of Benjamin and Laura Knott Huffines, relates a different 
story that was rumored throughout the Knott family lines.

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