What Happened in 1912  
From Donna Parrish's Shadow of 1912:

Ellen Grice was assaulted on Wednesday, September 4,1912.Tony Howell was charged with "Assault with intent to Rape" (Book 4 p. 391). After several adjournments, the case was "nol prossed". Howell continued to live in Forsyth County until the 1940's, when according to a neighbor he moved to Alpharetta, GA to reside with his daughter.

Mae Crow was assaulted on Sunday, September 08, 1912.She died Monday, September 23, 1912. Rob Edwards was indicted for the rape of Mae Crow.  On Tuesday September 10,1912 Edwards was shot, drug from the Cumming, GA  jail and hung up on the telephone pole at the intersection of Main Street and Tribble Gap Road (the northwest corner of the Square). The coroner's inquest held Wednesday, September 18,1912 found the cause of death to be a gun shot.

September 1912 Calendar
Forsyth County, Georgia
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4
Election Day
Assault
on Ellen Grice
5 6 7
Racial
 Confrontation

 6 to Marietta
8
Assault on
Mae Grow
9
Ernest Knox
moved from Hall Co.
to Atlanta
10  
Rob Edwards
Shot
Lynched
11
 3 taken to Atlanta

W. J. Buice
Store Burned
12 13 14
15 16 17 18
Coroner's Inquest
on Rob Edwards
19 20 21
22 23
Mae Crow
 DIES
24 25 26 27 28
29 30 TO OCTOBER
CALENDAR

 

Colored Tax Digest of Forsyth County 1911-1917 and Owners named on 1910 Census  By Donna Parrish

Newspaper Transcriptions from 1912 Attempted rape, Rape, Murder Case           by Brenda Webb with notes by Donna


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