NOTE: You will have to click on this post to read it in the order in which it was written.
From the February 10, 1898, edition of People's Voice of Wellington, Kansas.
From the February 10, 1898, edition of People's Voice of Wellington, Kansas.
It appears that shortly before the suit came up in court, Eugene Shobe had the inscription removed from his son's stone. As you can see from this piece in the Cincinnati Enquirer of March 6, 1898, the trial had become a big deal. Fifty witnesses and a dozen or more lawyers!
Eventually the defendants were ordered to pay the court costs and the matter was laid to rest. This is from the Louisville Courier-Journal of March 12, 1898.
I did look at Brooks LaRue Shobe's tombstone via Find a Grave. Perhaps the stone was replaced in the intervening years between the 1898 suit and the death of his parents in the 1920s. The three stones all look to be of the same vintage.
Brooks Shobe was stabbed in 1885, a few weeks after his 16th birthday.