Col. William H.H. Tison (CSA)

Tison, William Henry Haywood (1822-1882) — also known as Col. W. H. H. Tison — of Carrollville, Prentiss County, Miss. Born in Jackson County, Ala., November 6, 1822. Democrat. Farmer; lawyer; postmaster; dry goods merchant; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Murdered, in Baldwyn, Lee County, Miss., December 4, 1882 (age 60 years, 28 days). Interment at Baldwyn Masonic Cemetery, Baldwyn, Miss. Relatives: Married, April 19, 1853, to Sarah Celina Walker.

Biographical information added with 2nd photo on 8/25/12 by Carl Houston, Jr. This info includes spouse's name.

The Schoharie Union, Schoharie NY, 12/21/1882: "Speaker Tison, of Mississippi, was shot and instantly killed at Baldwin, in that State, by Edward Saunders. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., gives this account of the affair: "Domestic trouble in the family of Colonel Tison's brother culminated in an attack on Edward Saunders, a merchant in Baldwin, by the two Tisons, and a son of each, which resulted in Saunders being badly beaten and injured. While confined to the house he was repeatedly informed that Colonel Tison had threatened to kill him. Going out for the first time on Monday he carried his shotgun and shot Tison on sight, killing him instantly."

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