[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 11, 1860
On Tuesday last, great excitement was created in Marshall, by the intelligence that a lady of this county was missing from her house, and that apprehensions existed that she had been killed by the negroes. It seems that her husband attended the election in this place, the day previous, and owing to the hot weather, did not leave until late. He arrived at home early in the night, and found his wife missing. The negroes could give no satisfactory account of her absence. Of course an affair of this character created great consternation. Search was instituted and she was finally found about seven miles from home, at the residence of Mr. Boon. Reports had been circulated that the negroes were to rise on election day, and being a short distance from the house, she heard the firing of guns, and becoming frightened ran off, her alarm increasing with her flight. She was out the entire night, and arrived at Mr. Boon’s This affair shows the necessity of prudence and caution, and the folly of unnecessary alarm.