ELI HOWARD

                    
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ELI HOWARD

Another Howard was the Eli Howard who had the girl, Mandy, who escaped and notified Hendricks and Judge Pierson about the Leon River school massacre in 1867. Later she married Bill Massingill.  Evidently they lived further up the river, maybe in the Gustine community. Massingill he said wanted to get an old man’s money. He said another took him to the woods, hung him up, burned his feet, tortured him, and made him tell where he had buried the money. They went and got it but they hung him and Mr. Williams said he saw the hole in the ground where they dug it up several weeks later.

(I had thought Eli Howard was also the name of the one who brought in from the southeast and given a sort of trial (during the Civil War) under the trees so the east side and hung near the Blansit place down Pecan Creek. Mr. Williams didn’t seem to be sure about the first name.)

(Then there was the Howard, I think, that Aunt Mandy Evans told Felix and me about, who had come home as a furlough during the Civil War, and that they hung, and who she thought was not really guilty of the horse theft. See her story.)

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 
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