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Lindley Murray Ferris shot dead

Lindley Murray Ferris of New Orleans

Jeffrey Ferris’s great-great-great-great-grandson, Lindley Murray Ferris (1837-1895) came to a nasty end in New Orleans. He was a prominent sugar planter and sugar refiner of the time. His murderer, Henry Payne, had been impoverished by the failure of one of Ferris’s businesses.