Deputy Sheriff Isaac Bosse Heffington, Lee County Sheriff's Department, Texas

Deputy Sheriff Isaac Bosse Heffington

Lee County Sheriff's Department, Texas

End of Watch Monday, December 3, 1883

Isaac Bosse Heffington

Deputy Heffington was shot and killed while searching for a suspect wanted for a robbery and murder. While he was searching an unidentified man stepped out from behind some boxes, said something to him, and then shot him. Deputy Heffington signed a statement while on his death bed implicating a man for the murder, but he man was found not guilty, and the case was never solved.
Deputy Heffington was survived by his wife and children.

Bio

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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Incident Date Saturday, December 1, 1883
Weapon Handgun
Offender Never identified

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Deputy Huffington was my great uncle via his wife Clara H (Harrison) Heffingtion. My great grandmother, Lenora H (Harrison), was his niece. Lanora was born in Lee county in 1866. When I was a child she told me stories of her life in the late 1800s. In 1891 she named my grandmother Clara Lee. The Herrington story is one I have enjoyed researching as I've aged.

I spent 22 years in the US military as a Military Police officer.

Thanks for your work on this issue.

LTC (R) Larry D Seals
US Army

February 7, 2018