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Nataniel Green Tracy.

checking on another old family story, Nathaniel Green Tracy, my Greatgrandmother's great uncle, was reported to have shot and killed an election official named Bart Alsup during the election ot 1867, at Cumi, Arkansas (Now in Rural Baxter County, near New Athens). for not allowing the former Confederate soldier to vote. Tracy fled to Texas and only returned to Arkansas in 1925, 58 years later, for a brief visit. He believed that there were still federal warrants out for him. His Brother, Harry Tracy, also a Confederate soldier, fled to Texas a little later, after shooting a carpetbagger tax collector, who was trying to take a piece of leather from a widow who had bought the leather to make shoes for her kids. Both brothers, according to the story, settled in Anderson County, Texas. Can anyone shed any light on either of these stories? We all know that these stories get changed, and lose detail with each generation's telling. Thanks, Joe W. Smith

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