D. Lenderman, 1928
Madisonville Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, October 17, 1928, Page 1:
“Funeral services for D. Lenderman were held at Coker Creek, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Interment was in the Coker Creek Cemetery. Lenderman was shot Wednesday afternoon by his nephew, Hobart Webb, at the farm house of Hobart Webb at Coker Creek, fourteen miles from Tellico Plains, this county.
Webb, who was 27 years of age, died Wednesday night after he had been taken to the Howard-Henderson Hospital at Knoxville by Dr. W.A. Rogers of Tellico Plains.
Both men fired about the same time and both fired three times. Both men were shot in the abdomen, Webb with a .45 calibre automatic and Lenderman with a shotgun. The cause of the quarrel was not learned by Sheriff Kennedy, who went to investigate the tragedy, but he said both men were drinking. No one was near the scene of the shooting but Mrs. Webb, who was inside the house at the time of the shooting. She was the only eye-witness. The quarrel took place after the two men had been riding and had just gotten out of the car in front of Webb’s home.
The body of Webb was brought to Coker Creek, Thursday morning.
Webb leaves a wife and one child. Lenderman also has a wife and one child.
Webb was a farmer and a fire guard of the Cherokee National Forest. Lenderman was the son of Dave Lenderman and was employed at his father’s store at Coker Creek.
The men had been on good terms and no trouble had ever been known to exist between the two.”