History of Macon County, Georgia

History of Macon County, Georgia
Author: Louise Frederick Hays
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-07-18
Genre: Macon County (Ga.)
ISBN: 9780806347769

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Given by Eugene Edge III.

Hanging the Macon County Witch

Hanging the Macon County Witch
Author: C. L. Gammon
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2015-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514829578

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Hanging the Macon County Witch is a true story. The hanging outlined in this book really took place in Lafayette, Tennessee in the late spring of 1845. This bizarre story follows a slave woman named Lize - who claims to be a witch by the way - from the time Wilson Meador purchased her, until the Macon County Sheriff hanged her. This story has several weird twists and turns, including Lize trading her own head to a local doctor for ginger cakes and hard cider. Truth is stranger than fiction and this true story is as strange as they come!

Macon County

Macon County
Author: Dan Guillory
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 143963324X

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Macon County occupies nearly 600 square miles of fertile farmland in the geographic center of Illinois. Abraham Lincoln made his first Illinois home here, on a pleasant bluff overlooking the Sangamon River, near presentday Harristown. On May 10, 1860, he was first nominated for the presidency in Decatur, the county seat. During the World War I era, Macon County boasted over a dozen hamlets and villages, including Warrensburg and Maroa, which both enjoyed opera houses and busy train stations. Maroa was home to John Crocker, who became a famous banker, while nearby Forsyth produced Black Bart, the infamous bank robber. After World War II, Decatur became known as the soybean capital of the world. And today, agricultural and industrial workers depend on one another, growing and processing the corn and soybeans that have made Macon County a self-sustaining economic engine.

The Case of the Missing Macon County Men

The Case of the Missing Macon County Men
Author: Joe Grimsley
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781462651993

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CITIZENS OF AMERICA Please consider this: as a nation, we stood by and allowed Troy Davis to be executed within the guidelines of the law; but not considering justice at all. With almost one million petitioners requesting clemency-over fifty members of congress, a former President, members of the jury that convicted and sentenced Troy, his legal team, his family, his church, and Troy-the one official board with the authority to do so ignored the cries of the people that Troy Davis had come to represent, refused to do so, and then put Troy to death. "LAW NOT JUSTICE." What's more, the final hope was not the Supreme Court; no one tried the White House! My request is that you investigate the "Pamela Smart Case" in New York. With her only wrong doing being infidelity (an extramarital affair), she has served over twenty years of her sentence (life without parole) in prison. Governor Cuomo is aware of her case, but has no power or authority to help her. She has no hope of freedom unless YOU help her. If YOU want to be a part of justice for Pamela, call your Federal Congressman (preferably your Senator) and express your opinion. Then write President Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. 20500, and ask for clemency for Pamela Smart, by President Obama ordering her release from prison, and by commuting her sentence to time served.