Son of Jasper and Mary Brockman Franklin. Captain in the Civil War. Illinois 1st Light Artillery, Battery K. Shot and killed by a horse thief. Angereau and Lucinda had another son Jasper Elijah b. 1845, d. 08 Jun 1864 at DeValls Bluff, Arkansas. Jasper's burial place is unknown.

Jonesboro Gazette Union County Illinois
26 December, 1868

Fatal Affray in Johnson County

Capt. B. Franklin Killed by a Horse Thief - Thief Captured and Hung.

------, Il December 21, 1868

Patton ? Gazette A very serious affair took place near Reynoldsburg, Johnson Co,last Saturday about noon resulting in the death of Capt. Buck Franklin, a very prominent
citizen of that vicinity. It seems that on Saturday, forenoon, three men (strangers) were passing Capt. Franklin's place on horseback. One of them proposed to trade horses with the Captain. Capt. Franklin asking considerable difference between the horses, which the stranger quickly agreed to give. But Capt. F was suspicious of the stranger, he declined to trade.The other two strangers rode on, while stranger #1, lingered around the vicinity until the Capt. went in to an adjoining field to pick corn. When the stranger went into the barn and exchanged horses and went on. Capt. F was immediately
informed of the fact, and with a neighbor started in pursuit of the fellow and overtook him a short distance from the house, when the fellow turned and fired 3 shots at the Capt., killing him instantly. The ruffian then took to the woods. The matter was known in the vicinity and the people turned out en masse to arrest the murderer. He was captured about three o'clock p.m., and was taken back to Doctor Fern's office, and place under guard for the night. About 12 o'clock at night, a posse of men proceeded to the
Doctors office, and demanded of the guard the ruffian. The guard refused to admit them, whereupon they forced open the door and took him, and hung him in a tree nearby. He was allowed to hang there until Sunday. At 1:00 the Coroner took charge of the body. The two men that were with him returned and gave themselves up. They were held to an examination and discharged. It appeared they were with the murderer but a short time, having met him the day before, traveling in the same direction. The murderer
professed to be from Texas, and from his confessions was a hard ruffian.