Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . eye-lids of the deceased were open and hisghastly stare met the eyes of him who discovered the rapidly retreated from the scene, summoning the neigh-bors, and the body was taken down. It was discovered to bethat of William Nelson, who had lived in the was known as a man of quiet habits, and had been missing 520 HISTORY OF MADISOX COUXTV, INDIANA. only a few days. There was no known cause assigned forhim thus summarily taking himself off, other than that hismind had become unbalanced. He had relatives in t
Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . eye-lids of the deceased were open and hisghastly stare met the eyes of him who discovered the rapidly retreated from the scene, summoning the neigh-bors, and the body was taken down. It was discovered to bethat of William Nelson, who had lived in the was known as a man of quiet habits, and had been missing 520 HISTORY OF MADISOX COUXTV, INDIANA. only a few days. There was no known cause assigned forhim thus summarily taking himself off, other than that hismind had become unbalanced. He had relatives in the countywho were notified and took possession of the body after theCoroner had viewed the same. The remains were interred ina neighboring cemetery. KILLING OF DAVID H. WATSON. David H. Watson was in 1858 elected Sheriff of Madisoncounty, and served two years, shortly after which he unfortu-nately lost his life in an altercation with one Michael following account of the affair is furnished by the W. Sansberry, who was one of the attorneys who. EX-SHERIKF DAVID H. WATSON. prosecuted Howe for the crime. We copy what Mr. Sans-berry says about it, and have also added some additional mat-ter to the same, as follows : When the writer came to Anderson in the fall of 1850, nostranger could stop over night in our embryo city without beingthoroughly interviewed by some inquisitive Andersonian, andin a few hours we were informed wliere he was from andwhere he was going, and how long he was going to remainamong us. These interviews were not, as now, published insome daily newspaper, and read by ravenous sensation seek-ers, but passed from mouth to mouth. In the summer of 1853, among others, and the numberwas not great, came from Virginia, two large, tall, well-builtmen, each, I should think, six feet two inches in height, half-brothers, by name David H. Watson and Richards; HISTORY OF MAniSOX COUNTV, INDIANA. 521 the latter remained but a short time and tiien returned to
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