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Small cabin in Webster Parish Louisiana where the Reeves family was murdered in 1916

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Contact Information	For information or permission to use/publish, contact: LAColl@state.lib.la.us
Title	Small cabin in Webster Parish Louisiana where the Reeves family was murdered in 1916
Subject	Dwellings Houses Cabins Homicides
Description	B&W photo, date unknown. Small cabin in Webster Parish, Louisiana. Written on photo: The place where the Reeves family was murdered, Christmas Eve 1920. From the website of the Dorcheat Historical Association & Museum, Inc. at http://museuminminden.blogspot.com : On Christmas Day, 1916, John Nelson Reeves, his wife, Maud, and three of their four children were axed to death as they lay peacefully sleeping in their rural Webster Parish home. The gruesome slayings of the Grove, LA family members, and the next four years of trials and appeals of the accused killers, is the subject of a true-crime novel penned by Minden resident Marilyn Miller and published in October of 2000 by Sweet Dreams Publishing Company of Many (LA).
Notes	Creator and date unknown.
Type	image
Format	jpeg
Identifier	http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cgi-bin/queryresults.exe?&CISOROOT1=/LHP&CISOFIELD1=object&CISOBOX1=hp010144
Source	State Library of Louisiana (http://www.state.lib.la.us)
Language	en
Relation	http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/index_LHP.php?CISOROOT=/LHP
Coverage-Spatial	Webster Parish (La.)
Rights	Physical rights are retained by the State Library of Louisiana. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.
Object File Names	hp010144
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