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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Julia Glenn: Birth: 13 JUN 1894 in Belfast, Marshall, Tennessee, USA. Death: 29 OCT 1948 in Lewisburg, Marshall, Tennessee, USA

  2. William Knox Glenn: Birth: 4 SEP 1898 in Belfast, Marshall, Tennessee, USA. Death: 4 AUG 1984 in Belfast, Marshall, Tennessee, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;
2. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1880; Census Place: District 5, Marshall, Tennessee; Roll: 1269; Family History Film: 1255269; Page: 364C; Enumeration District: 136; Image: .
Author:   Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
3. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 5, Marshall, Tennessee; Roll: 1587; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1241587
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
4. Title:   Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1727-2008
Page:   Probate Records, 1835-1917; Author: Tennessee County Court (Marshall County); Probate Place: Marshall, Tennessee
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;
5. Title:   Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958
Page:   Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958; Roll Number: 13
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
6. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1870; Census Place: District 5, Marshall, Tennessee; Page: 68B; Family History Library Film: 553045
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;
7. Title:   Marshall County Historical Quarterly (Glenn)
Author:   Marshall County Historical Society
Publication:   Date: Vol XXI, Spring 1990, No.1;
8. Title:   Headstones at Head Springs Cemetery

Notes
a. Note:   LEWISBURG TN TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 1902
  AWFUL TRAGEDY AT BELFAST
  GLENN SHOT DOWN BY BILL PROSSER LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON, GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILS
  A MOST DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY WAS ENACTED SUNDAY EVENING ABOUT DARK NEAR BELFAST WHICH THREW THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY INTO A STATE OF INTENSE EXCITEMENT AND SADNESS. WILLIAM GLENN, A PROMINENT FARMER AND POPULAR CITIZEN, WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY BILL PROSSER, A MAN BEARING A BAD REPUTATION, ON THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY, NEAR THE FORMER'S RESIDENCE.
  THE FACTS REGARDING THE SAD AFFAIR AS BEST WE CAN LEARN, ARE AS FOLLOWS: JESS MCLAIN AND WIFE, NEAR NEIGHBORS, HAD GONE TO MR GLENN'S HOME TO SPEND THE DAY. MR MCLAIN ACCOMPANIED MR GLENN TO THE HOME OF THE LATTER'S MOTHER. SOON AFTER THEIR DEPARTURE MRS GLENN AND MRS MCLAIN HEARD SOMEONE SCREAMING AT THE PROSSER HOME WHICH IS NEARBY. THEY HASTENED FROM THE HOUSE AND STARTED TOWARD THE PROSSER HOME. WHEN ABOUT HALFWAY, MRS PROSSER AROSE OUT OF THE WEEDS AND CRIED, "WOMEN PROTECT ME!" THEY ASSURED HER THAT THEY WOULD. ABOUT THIS TIME PROSSER CAME OUT OF A CORNFIELD NEARBY AND CATCHING HIS WIFE DRAGGED HER BACK TO THE HOUSE. IT SEEMS THAT PROSSER HAD WHIPPED HIS WIFE SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY. LATER SHE APPEARED AT THE GLENN RESIDENCE WHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. MR GLENN HAD RETURNED AND HAD GONE TO THE BARN TO FEED. PROSSER CAME TO THE BARN AND SAID TO GLENN: "YOU HAVE GOT MY WIFE PENNED UP IN YOUR HOUSE." GLENN DROVE HIM AWAY FROM THE BARN. A LITTLE LATER PROSSER RETURNED AND AGAIN GLENN DROVE HIM AWAY, THIS TIME BY WAY OF THE BARN GATE WHICH LEADS OUT INTO THE PUBLIC ROAD. WHEN GLENN HAD REACHED THE ROAD PROSSER STOPPED AT A DISTANCE OF ABOUT THIRTY YARDS AND DRAWING AN ARMY PISTOL TOOK DELIBERATE AIM ACROSS HIS ARM, FIRED THE FATAL SHOT. THE BALL ENTERED THE UNFORTUNATE MAN'S HEART; HE MADE THREE STEPS AND FELL DEAD BY THE ROADSIDE. JUST BEFORE THE SHOOTING OCCURRED THOMAS CRUNK, A NEIGHBOR, APPEARED UPON THE SCENE AND WAS THE ONLY WITNESS TO THE SHOCKING TRAGEDY. PROSSER POINTED HIS PISTOL AT CRUNK AND PULLED THE TRIGGER BUT THE PISTOL FAILED TO FIRE. HE MADE ANOTHER EFFORT; THE PISTOL FIRED, BUT THE BALL WENT WILD.
  WILLIAM MCLAIN, HEARING THE SHOTS AND THE SCREAMS OF THE DISTRESSED RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS, HURRIED TO THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY. ON HIS WAY HE MET PROSSER WITH THE PISTOL IN HIS HAND. PROSSER TOLD HIM THAT HE (PROSSER) HAD SHOT WILL GLENN. MCLAIN MADE AN EFFORT TO SECURE THE PISTOL, BUT PROSSER REFUSED TO GIVE IT UP, SAYING THAT HE MIGHT NEED IT.
  PROSSER STOPPED AT THE HOME OF MR MCADAMS TELLING HIM THAT HE HAD SHOT MR GLENN AND ASKING MCADAMS TO GO AND SEE ABOUT IT. PROSSER SAID THAT HE WOULD RETURN DURING THE NIGHT TO LEARN THE RESULT OF THE SHOOTING. PROSSER'S HOME WAS CAREFULLY GUARDED DURING THE NIGHT.
  BLOODHOUNDS WERE BROUGHT FROM TALLEY STATION AND PLACED ON THE TRACK OF THE FLEETING MURDERER, BUT THE NIGHT WAS SO DARK AND THE COUNTRY SO ROUGH, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE MUCH PROGRESS, CONTINUED EFFORTS WILL BE MADE TO CAPTURE HIM. THERE IS BITTER FEELING AGAINST PROSSER IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT; THE PURSUED MAN HAS A WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN.
  MR GLENN LEAVES A WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT HEAD SPRINGS CHURCH OF WHICH THE DECEASED WAS A MEMBER, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK BY REV T M HENDRIX.
  William Martin Glenn was murdered by Bill Prosser,who was beating his wife. The Prosser wife came to the Glenn house for safe haven and in a drunken rage Mr Prosser shot and killed William Martin.



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