Reidsville Man Shoots His Father, 1901

From Fisherman and Farmer, Elizabeth City, Thursday, Sept. 5, 1901

Reidsville—John Ware, a young white man living six miles east of Reidsville, shot and probably fatally wounded his father, David Ware, about 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. He also fired two bullets into a colored man who was trying to prevent a difficulty between the two. The negro was not seriously hurt. Young Ware immediately left home and has not yet been apprehended. It is said the son became enraged as some remarks his father made about his wife, whom he had recently married.