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- From FindaGrave:
Born in Clear Creek, LA was married to Mollie Wollins.
Kate Hall Was killed in The Grabow Riot picketing with the IWW against the Galloway Lumber Co.
The International Workers of the World was organizing sawmill workers and every non-union mill was a target. A.L. Emerson was the organizer making the sawmill rounds and speaking on this particular Sunday. Seab Rogers was an eyewitness. "We had been to Merryville, Singer, Newlin, and Carson and were headed for Bon Ami. Before we could get there someone came up and warned that Bon Ami was filled with gunmen and that we'd certainly be killed if we went there. There was 15 wagonloads of us. Most of the men were armed. We headed for Grabow instead. I was driving the lead wagon, a brand new one pulled by a span of mules. Emerson was in my wagon. Somewhere along the way Emerson traded hats and coats with Decatur Hall. It was about 3:30 in the afternoon when we pulled up before the Grabow office and the shooting started right off. Three men were killed in my wagon. "kate" Hall went down first, I guess they figured he was Emerson, what with him having Emerson's hat and coat on. Then a fellow named Martin was shot and another whose name I don't recall right off went down with him."
"A Year of Death" Beaumont Sunday Enterprise-Journal, Sect C, Sept. 15, 1974 Recollections from Seab Rogers about "The Grabow Riot" of July 7, 1912.
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headstone says he was killed
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1887 - 1912 (25 years)
