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Note N00343 Index

Robert, known as Bob, was lynched for killing his mother-in-lay, Eliza Myers Walser. He maintained that he did not shoot her.......

The story is that Eliza was "a real bitch" and kidnapped her daughter, Laura, just before her and Bob's baby, Clara Vestal, was born. Bob grabbed the baby and ran and his story is "he heard shots being fired as he ran away. Anyway, he was lynched.

This child, Clara Vestal later married Daniel Jackson Hobbs, who died. She then married William Davis Walser and bore him 11 children.

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9/2005
Doris indicated that Vestal had been married several times. No children by either wife and she didn't want to have that information in family records.

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9/2005
Doris indicated that Vestal had been married several times. No children by either wife and she didn't want to have that information in family records.

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9/2005
Doris indicated that Wesley had been married several times. No children, by either wife and she didn't want their information in the family information.

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9/2005
Doris indicated that Wesley had been married several times. No children, by either wife and she didn't want their information in the family information.

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Note N00348 Index

Robert B. Berrier, known in the community as Bob was lynched by community members for killing his mother-ibn-law, Eliza Myers Walser. He maintained to the end.....that he didn't shoot her, but.........

The story is that Eliza was a "real bitch" and kidnapped her daughter, Laura, just before Bob and Laura's baby was born. There is some discussion as to the actual happenings, but, after the birth of the child, named Clara Vestal, "something happened" and Bob grabbed the baby girl and ran away and later indicated that he heard shots coming from the house.

He was arrested for killing Eliza, but the community "hung him anyway"

Laura later married Daniel Jackson Hobbs and Clara's sir-name became Hobbs

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Note N00349 Index

Marshall William Walser was cremated and his ashes interred in Shilo UMC Cemetery, Lexington, NC next to his infant son, Venus Marshall Walser

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Tombstone inscribed:
Murdered by George Hartley; A better man never died for a more unjust cause.

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Tombstone inscribed:
Murdered by George Hartley; A better man never died for a more unjust cause.

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1/2007--no record of burial in Dry Hill Cemetery, Dry Hill, Tennessee. No stone for evidence; no written records.

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1/2007--no record of burial in Dry Hill Cemetery, Dry Hill, Tennessee. No stone for evidence; no written records.

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Note N00354 Index

Anna Belle Potter first married Thurman Dotson Aldridge, then married Mack Coy Walser; after Mack's death, she remarried Thurman Aldridge.

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Tombstone in Good Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, shows date of birth as 2/18/1868 and death certificate shows date of birth of 1866