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Note: CENSUS-1880-HAMILTON TWP,SULLIVAN CO CO. "F" 115TH IND. INF.-PER TOMBSTONE ENLISTED 29 JULY 1863 MUSTERED OUT FEB 24, 1864 AT INDIANAPOLIS SEE NOTES ON BROTHER HENRY HARVEY HECK. IN THE GROUP TO NEBRASKA WAS A DIX FAMILY. 1900 CENSUS- EPPS, BUTLER CO., MO- PAGE 65- WIFE MAGGIE M., MARRIED 30 YEARS, NO CHILDREN- GRANDSON WILLIAM D. DOOLEY WITH THEM TO REACH CEMETERY GO WEST FROM POPLAR BLUFF ON PP HWY TO TT HWY TO END OF BLACKTOP AND TAKE LEFT FORK .9 OF A MILE, CEMETERY ON RIGHT
ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS, "BILL" HECK WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY L.M. HENSON, CIRCUIT CLERK OF BUTLER COUNTY, MISSOURI. THE TROUBLE AROSE FROM A LAND DISPUTE BETWEEN HENSON AND H.S. ADAMS, HECK'S LANDLORD. HENSON AND HIS BROTHER RILEY HENSON WERE WORKING ON CLEARING THE LAND IN QUESTION. ADAMS WENT TO CONFRONT THE HENSONS AND ASKED HECK TO GO ALONG. BOTH HENSONS AND ADAMS WERE ARMED. ACCOUNTS VARY AS TO WHETHER HECK WAS ARMED. IN THE MELEY THAT FOLLOWED RILEY HENSON, ADAMS AND HECK WERE ALL KILLED. AS THERE WERE NO OTHER WITNESSES ALL ACCOUNTS OF THE EVENT CAME FROM L.M. HENSON. ONE NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT SAYS RILEY HENSON FIRED HIS PISTOL FIRST BUT IT MISFIRED. AS HE REACHED FOR HIS RIFLE HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ADAMS. L.M. HENSON THEN FIRED TWICE WITH HIS SHOTGUN AT ADAMS, STRIKING HIM THE SECOND TIME. HE THEN RELOADED HIS SHOTGUN AND SHOT ADAMS AGAIN AND THEN SHOT HECK. L.M. HENSON WAS TRIED FOR THE MURDER OF ADAMS AND WAS ACQUITTED ON SELF-DEFENSE. I CAN NOT FIND THAT HE WAS EVER TRIED FOR THE KILLING OF BILL HECK.
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