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 cr
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