Robert Ford, a male victim recorded as having died in Randolph, Alabama, on August 17, 1903, appears in the online record as one of the dead in a burst of violence tied to a man named Aaron Sledge. The clearest surviving newspaper account says the trouble began near Beaver Creek, close to Lamar, where road hands had been working near Sledge’s home. After tempers flared, Sledge armed himself, came back toward the group, and opened fire, first shooting the road overseer and then firing into the
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