WILLIAM BURLESON
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 44-W: 27
Department: Avery County, North Carolina, S.O.
End of Watch: April 26, 1923
Cause: SHOT
Age: 48
Years of Service:
Description: Deputy Sheriff Burleson was anbushed and shot as he and Deputy Vester Stafford seized a moonshine still and were in the process of dismantling it. Deputy Burleson died several hours later from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
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