According to our research of Indiana and other state lists there were 13 registered sex offenders living in Ligonier, Indiana as of April 04, 2017. The ratio of number of residents in Ligonier to the number of sex offenders is 338 to 1. Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Elkhart, IN (24.7 miles , pop. 51,874).
On April 3, 1882, Jesse got a bullet in the back of the head. He died with few allies, but in later years the myth surrounding him grew so strong that it eventually crowded out the inconvenient truths of his own murderous life.
He was borne in on a stretcher, the bloody towel over his head. It was the same emergency room to which James H. Meredith, first Negro enrolled at the University of Mississippi, was taken after he was ambushed and shot in June, 1965, at Hernando, Miss., a few miles south of Memphis; Mr. Meredith was not seriously hurt.