Napa County Deaths

John B. See

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          Killing of John B. See�On Wednesday, May 1, 1872, at 4 P. M., at 
Monticello, Berryessa Valley, John B. See was killed under the following 
circumstances: The See brothers, three in number, were standing in the street at 
Monticello, when Le Grande Thompson passed by. Some hard words passed between 
them, growing out of an old feud, when they agreed to fight it out there and 
then. Thompson and John B. See clinched, and after scuffling for awhile Thompson 
drew a dirk knife and cut See twice with it. Just then Granville Thompson, a 
brother of the one in the fight, rushed up and drew a pistol and shot, the ball 
taking effect in See's breast. See only lived a short time. 

Source: [Lyman L. Palmer], History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (San 
Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881), page 152.