U.S.A. Executions - 1607-1976 MISSOURI

# NAME AGE RACE SEX OCCUPATION CRIME METHOD DATE MTPL COUNTY

167 REED, JAMES 22 BLACK MALE ? MURDER HANGING MAR 30 1899 1 MERCER

174 HEADRICK, JOHN 19 WHITE MALE FARM HAND MURDER HANGING JUN 15 1899 1 MERCER

175 RICE, CARROLL WHITE MALE ? MURDER HANGING JUN 15 1899 2 HARRISON

no executions in area in the time frame of Amanda Shirley murder.....

today I went to visit Amanda.

Pretty sure this is where house stood

This shows how you can see Maxwell house from Shirley house.

Driveway to house?

her final resting place...Cat Creek Cemetery.

this picture taken June 2, 2017 at Cat Creek Cemetery, Brimson, Missouri....

from findagrave.com Birth: Aug. 3, 1884 Death: Sep. 17, 1911 Harrison County Missouri, USA d/o William N. & Zelda (UTTERBACK) SOVERN. 1st w/o Jasper Edmund 'Ed' SHIRLEY. Murdered. A MURDERER BROKE HIS VICTIM'S NECK Harrison County Woman Was Slain Sunday Alone With Baby Daughter Mrs. Ed Shirley was Attacked and Killed While Her Husband and Sons Were Away on an Errand - Slayer Locked House and Fled Her body unbruised, but her neck broken, the body of Mrs. Ed Shirley was found Sunday afternoon by her husband in an upstairs chamber of the Shirley home, seven miles north of Melbourne. Death was apparently the result of an encounter with some murderous fiend who had entered the house and attacked her while her husband was absent. Mr. Shirley and his two sons left the home Sunday morning to go to a relative's for some peaches. They left Mrs. Shirley and her two and a half year old daughter alone. That afternoon about two o'clock the father and boys returned. Every door in the house was locked. Every window was fastened, save one. The little girl was locked in and too small to open the door, so one of the boys climbed through the unfastened window and turned the key. Upstairs in a room where Mrs. Shirley had evidently gone for a nap, the chamber door was locked. Inside the room were signs of a fierce struggle and on the bed was the body of the murdered woman. Save for some blue marks on the wrist where her assailant grasped her, there were no traces of a fight on her person. A broken neck was sufficient to show that her end had been violent. Family links: Parents: William N Sovern/Suvern (1859 - 1891) Zelda Utterback (1842 - 1927) Spouse: Jasper Edmund Shirley (1873 - 1937)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Cat Creek Cemetery Gilman City Harrison County Missouri, USA Plot:

Emery Edmond Shirley

Brimson History 1985-1986 page 234

Emery Edmond Shirley, son of Jasper Edward or Edmond Shirley and Leah Gibler Hobbs Shirley was injured and died as a result of a sledding accident Jan. 18, 1937 on the Thomas Hill North of Brimson.

Ed & Amanda Shirley

page 463 Brimson History 1985-1986

Ed and Amanda Shirley
Jasper Edward or Edmond Shirley, born Mar. 23, 1873, son of William Harding and Mary Elizabeth Shaw Shirley. He was married to Amanda Sovern.
They were the parents of:
Earl Chester born Feb. 19, 1902, married Nona Duffy Lovell Nov. 18, 1942. He died May 16, 1979. Buried at Resthaven.
Clay W. born Aug. 5, 1903, married Veda VanArsdale Nov. 4, 1926, died May 14, 1980. Buried at Resthaven.
Everett born in 1907, married Dorothy Huff, died June 26, 1972. Buried in Phoenix, Az.
Blanche born Jan. 1909, married Carl Anderson, died May 16, 1971. Buried in Greely, colo.
Ed and Amanda lived on a farm northwest of Cat Creek Church and reared their family there. Amanda died Sept. 17, 1911.
On Dec. 22, 1925 Ed was married to Leah Rebecca Gibler Hobbs. She was the widow of John Hobbs. She was the mother of Otis Ray Hobbs born Mar. 13, 1905, Albert Nova Hobbs born June 1, 1911, Alice Nadyne born Feb. 4, 1919, and two infants Chloe and George Hobbs.
Ed and Leah had a son Emery Edmond born Mar. 4, 1927 and died Jan. 18, 1937 in a sledding accident. Leah died July 9, 1961.
Ed died in 1937. Amanda, Ed, and Emery Edmond are buried in Cat Creek.

an interesting development....

rec'd this facebook message from my brother John who formerly worked for the Grundy County MO sheriff's department....

I "think" the old Sheriff in Grundy County used to have a photo of the first and only legal execution by hanging of the guy who was tried in this case. I'm relatively sure it was the same incident anyway"