Sheriff William Franklin Bray

      On March 20, 1898 at approximately 11:00 a.m., Deputy Sheriff Homer Gilmore was involved in an altercation with Ashley Cocke, a prominent yet rather tough character in the middle of a busy Senatobia, Mississippi street.  After cursing one another repeatedly, Deputy Gilmore and Ashley Cocke drew their respective weapons and fired.  Cocke hit Gilmore three […]

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