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ACCORDING TO THE TESTIMONY OF TWO WHITE WITNESSES--TAKEN DOWN in late May 1871 by a justice of the peace in Anson County, North Carolina--Jim Coppedge, a fifteen-year-old freedman, had said that on Saturday night, the twentieth of that month, his stepfather, Ned Myers, came to Coppedge's house, "woke him up and told him to come on." The two then left the house, went to the gate at the road, "and there met Lewis Coppedge [Jim Coppedge's brother and also Ned Myers's stepson] and George Chambers." "Then they all come down the road and got over the fence into the orchard." From there the four men walked "to the corner near an aspen tree and stood there until every person left the Store." The general store, located at a crossroads called Whites Store in southwestern Anson County, was owned by Townley Redfearn, one of the area's largest merchants, and was operated by James W. Redfeam, probably one of Townley Redfearn's relatives. Only one other person was employed in the store--Jim Coppedge. (1) "Then Lewis went behind the well[,] Ned behind the Stable[,] George in the corner of the fence near the Shoe Shop and [Jim Coppedge] at the other end of the Shoe [shop[ near the fence." "After Mas Jim [James W. Redfearn] fed his horse and started back to the Store," went the testimony, "George & Lewis advanced on him at the same time." "Lewis got to him rather first and struck the first lick," and Jim Coppedge said that he could not be certain but thought that George Chambers struck Redfearn too. Whatever the case, Redfearn cried out "Oh: when he was first hit" and struggled briefly before dying. Lewis Coppedge and George Chambers then "searched his pockets," Coppedge searching "the most." Shortly afterward, Lewis and Jim Coppedge along with George Chambers "went into the store" and "left Pop [Ned Myers] outside." The three young men "searched the house for money," taking "nothing out of the Store but money, a tin box and some clothing and tobacco." Sometime later that evening, they left the store, and Lewis and George "went into a gully near the Store and looked over the money." "Pop took a little--George a little"; they gave Jim Coppedge "one dollar"; and "Lewis took off the most of the money." They then parted company, and Jim Coppedge "went home and went to bed." (2)

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