Henry was tending bar in the State Line Saloon located in Taney County along what’s today Missouri Route “JJ” a short distance east of Omaha, Arkansas. The saloon was an enterprise of Jess Oliver; a native of Taney County active in developing local lead mines and president of the first bank of Branson.
Local ruffians, cowboys and workers with a nearby railroad gang had been drinking and fighting for several hours prior to Henry’s shooting by William Wesley “Little Wes” Hudson. The crowd was joined by a couple of local gals named Miss Middleton and Trixie Campbell. Henry was shot in the abdomen and died the following morning in the saloon’s adjacent dining room.
Henry’s father in law, Claud Layton, was present during the affray according to later court testimony. The case was covered extensively by a number of newspapers, including Hudson’s prior and subsequent life of crime, his fleeing from the saloon and subsequent apprehension in Arkansas and extradition back to Taney County. The trial, in which Hudson was acquitted, was held on a change of venue in Christian County, Missouri. Hudson’s life long brushes with the law, the incident at the State Line Saloon and his untimely and violent death are thoroughly documented in Ken Butler’s book, “Oklahoma Renegades: Their Deeds and Misdeeds.”
Henry Barchman was born in May 1864 in Wells County, Indiana, the son of Margaret (McFarren) and John Barchman. He’d married Ona Layton Kieshlick, a local girl, Claud Layton’s daughter, who’d married and divorced in Chicago prior to her marriage to Barchman on May 27, 1895 in the Taney County seat of Forsyth. She had a daughter, Henrietta, from her previous marriage.
Two newspaper articles in the Bluffton, Indiana Evening News dated December 26, 1903 and Janaury 2, 1904 detailed Henry’s brother Leroy leaving the Sooner State and coming to Missouri to retrieve his brother’s body. Upon arrival, Roy Barchman discovered Henry had already been buried. Another brother John F.B. Barchman was residing with Henry in Taney County on the Census of 1900 while Henry’s wife was enumerated several miles away in the home of her father. Still a third brother, Otto, made his home in the Branson area for a number of decades and was buried in the Branson Cemetery next to his wife when he died in 1963.
A final odd twist to the story was provided by distant relative Judy Kiilehua: "(T)he State House appropriated $200 for the relief of ex-Sheriff Reese of Taney county, who paid out the $200 reward to Little Rock authorities before they would release Hudson. Because Hudson was acquitted, the reward was not paid to the Sheriff... they reimbursed him in 1907."
So far, no record of the burial place of Henry has been uncovered. One possibility is the Layton Family Cemetery in Hollister. A second is Gobbler’s Knob Cemetery nearby. We’ve placed him in the nearest graveyard to the State Line Saloon, that of Pinetop, until more research demonstrates a more appropriate location.
Local ruffians, cowboys and workers with a nearby railroad gang had been drinking and fighting for several hours prior to Henry’s shooting by William Wesley “Little Wes” Hudson. The crowd was joined by a couple of local gals named Miss Middleton and Trixie Campbell. Henry was shot in the abdomen and died the following morning in the saloon’s adjacent dining room.
Henry’s father in law, Claud Layton, was present during the affray according to later court testimony. The case was covered extensively by a number of newspapers, including Hudson’s prior and subsequent life of crime, his fleeing from the saloon and subsequent apprehension in Arkansas and extradition back to Taney County. The trial, in which Hudson was acquitted, was held on a change of venue in Christian County, Missouri. Hudson’s life long brushes with the law, the incident at the State Line Saloon and his untimely and violent death are thoroughly documented in Ken Butler’s book, “Oklahoma Renegades: Their Deeds and Misdeeds.”
Henry Barchman was born in May 1864 in Wells County, Indiana, the son of Margaret (McFarren) and John Barchman. He’d married Ona Layton Kieshlick, a local girl, Claud Layton’s daughter, who’d married and divorced in Chicago prior to her marriage to Barchman on May 27, 1895 in the Taney County seat of Forsyth. She had a daughter, Henrietta, from her previous marriage.
Two newspaper articles in the Bluffton, Indiana Evening News dated December 26, 1903 and Janaury 2, 1904 detailed Henry’s brother Leroy leaving the Sooner State and coming to Missouri to retrieve his brother’s body. Upon arrival, Roy Barchman discovered Henry had already been buried. Another brother John F.B. Barchman was residing with Henry in Taney County on the Census of 1900 while Henry’s wife was enumerated several miles away in the home of her father. Still a third brother, Otto, made his home in the Branson area for a number of decades and was buried in the Branson Cemetery next to his wife when he died in 1963.
A final odd twist to the story was provided by distant relative Judy Kiilehua: "(T)he State House appropriated $200 for the relief of ex-Sheriff Reese of Taney county, who paid out the $200 reward to Little Rock authorities before they would release Hudson. Because Hudson was acquitted, the reward was not paid to the Sheriff... they reimbursed him in 1907."
So far, no record of the burial place of Henry has been uncovered. One possibility is the Layton Family Cemetery in Hollister. A second is Gobbler’s Knob Cemetery nearby. We’ve placed him in the nearest graveyard to the State Line Saloon, that of Pinetop, until more research demonstrates a more appropriate location.
Henry was tending bar in the State Line Saloon located in Taney County along what’s today Missouri Route “JJ” a short distance east of Omaha, Arkansas. The saloon was an enterprise of Jess Oliver; a native of Taney County active in developing local lead mines and president of the first bank of Branson.
Local ruffians, cowboys and workers with a nearby railroad gang had been drinking and fighting for several hours prior to Henry’s shooting by William Wesley “Little Wes” Hudson. The crowd was joined by a couple of local gals named Miss Middleton and Trixie Campbell. Henry was shot in the abdomen and died the following morning in the saloon’s adjacent dining room.
Henry’s father in law, Claud Layton, was present during the affray according to later court testimony. The case was covered extensively by a number of newspapers, including Hudson’s prior and subsequent life of crime, his fleeing from the saloon and subsequent apprehension in Arkansas and extradition back to Taney County. The trial, in which Hudson was acquitted, was held on a change of venue in Christian County, Missouri. Hudson’s life long brushes with the law, the incident at the State Line Saloon and his untimely and violent death are thoroughly documented in Ken Butler’s book, “Oklahoma Renegades: Their Deeds and Misdeeds.”
Henry Barchman was born in May 1864 in Wells County, Indiana, the son of Margaret (McFarren) and John Barchman. He’d married Ona Layton Kieshlick, a local girl, Claud Layton’s daughter, who’d married and divorced in Chicago prior to her marriage to Barchman on May 27, 1895 in the Taney County seat of Forsyth. She had a daughter, Henrietta, from her previous marriage.
Two newspaper articles in the Bluffton, Indiana Evening News dated December 26, 1903 and Janaury 2, 1904 detailed Henry’s brother Leroy leaving the Sooner State and coming to Missouri to retrieve his brother’s body. Upon arrival, Roy Barchman discovered Henry had already been buried. Another brother John F.B. Barchman was residing with Henry in Taney County on the Census of 1900 while Henry’s wife was enumerated several miles away in the home of her father. Still a third brother, Otto, made his home in the Branson area for a number of decades and was buried in the Branson Cemetery next to his wife when he died in 1963.
A final odd twist to the story was provided by distant relative Judy Kiilehua: "(T)he State House appropriated $200 for the relief of ex-Sheriff Reese of Taney county, who paid out the $200 reward to Little Rock authorities before they would release Hudson. Because Hudson was acquitted, the reward was not paid to the Sheriff... they reimbursed him in 1907."
So far, no record of the burial place of Henry has been uncovered. One possibility is the Layton Family Cemetery in Hollister. A second is Gobbler’s Knob Cemetery nearby. We’ve placed him in the nearest graveyard to the State Line Saloon, that of Pinetop, until more research demonstrates a more appropriate location.
Local ruffians, cowboys and workers with a nearby railroad gang had been drinking and fighting for several hours prior to Henry’s shooting by William Wesley “Little Wes” Hudson. The crowd was joined by a couple of local gals named Miss Middleton and Trixie Campbell. Henry was shot in the abdomen and died the following morning in the saloon’s adjacent dining room.
Henry’s father in law, Claud Layton, was present during the affray according to later court testimony. The case was covered extensively by a number of newspapers, including Hudson’s prior and subsequent life of crime, his fleeing from the saloon and subsequent apprehension in Arkansas and extradition back to Taney County. The trial, in which Hudson was acquitted, was held on a change of venue in Christian County, Missouri. Hudson’s life long brushes with the law, the incident at the State Line Saloon and his untimely and violent death are thoroughly documented in Ken Butler’s book, “Oklahoma Renegades: Their Deeds and Misdeeds.”
Henry Barchman was born in May 1864 in Wells County, Indiana, the son of Margaret (McFarren) and John Barchman. He’d married Ona Layton Kieshlick, a local girl, Claud Layton’s daughter, who’d married and divorced in Chicago prior to her marriage to Barchman on May 27, 1895 in the Taney County seat of Forsyth. She had a daughter, Henrietta, from her previous marriage.
Two newspaper articles in the Bluffton, Indiana Evening News dated December 26, 1903 and Janaury 2, 1904 detailed Henry’s brother Leroy leaving the Sooner State and coming to Missouri to retrieve his brother’s body. Upon arrival, Roy Barchman discovered Henry had already been buried. Another brother John F.B. Barchman was residing with Henry in Taney County on the Census of 1900 while Henry’s wife was enumerated several miles away in the home of her father. Still a third brother, Otto, made his home in the Branson area for a number of decades and was buried in the Branson Cemetery next to his wife when he died in 1963.
A final odd twist to the story was provided by distant relative Judy Kiilehua: "(T)he State House appropriated $200 for the relief of ex-Sheriff Reese of Taney county, who paid out the $200 reward to Little Rock authorities before they would release Hudson. Because Hudson was acquitted, the reward was not paid to the Sheriff... they reimbursed him in 1907."
So far, no record of the burial place of Henry has been uncovered. One possibility is the Layton Family Cemetery in Hollister. A second is Gobbler’s Knob Cemetery nearby. We’ve placed him in the nearest graveyard to the State Line Saloon, that of Pinetop, until more research demonstrates a more appropriate location.
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