Frederick Irvin

Henry County Sheriff's Office — Paris, TN

Felonious

End of Watch January 1, 1866

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Deputy Sheriff Frederick Irvin was shot and killed in January 1866 while attempting to arrest a former Confederate soldier who was wanted for murder and other war crimes committed in Tennessee and Kentucky during the Civil War.

He encountered the man riding his horse on a road five miles east of Paris, Tennessee. As the two dismounted their horses the man drew is his pistol and fatally shot Deputy Irvin.

The man fled the state but returned that fall and was arrested in Nashville in November 1866. He was extradited to Kentucky where he was convicted of a prior murder, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed in October 1867.

The exact date of Deputy Irvin's murder in January 1866 is not known.

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160 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Deputy Sheriff Irvin served with the Henry County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Paris community. Gone but never to be forgotten.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Henry County Sheriff's Office

Location Paris, TN

Platform Identity hcso.henry.tn.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 1, 1866

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Offender Executed in 1867

Deputy Sheriff Frederick Irvin is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In TN, 498 of 769 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 64.8% of this state's fallen. That is 10.6 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Henry County Sheriff's Office, 5 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 83.3% of this agency's fallen.

Henry County Sheriff's Office

of 6 officers

83.3% Felonious

TN — Statewide

498

of 769 officers

64.8% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious