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Records show her Birth: 17 Oct 1881--Death: 22 Jul 1910
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Her husband once was seen to have one of his girls by the heels, swinging her around swearing he’d bash her brains out on a gallery post. But an African American man snatched the girl away and hid her in a cotton field.
He tortured his wife to death. People remember the gory, blood stained mess inside the house. There were indentions on the walls where Myatt had hurled things and missed. Furniture and iron pots were bloodied, and a window was shattered through which Myatt had hurled his wife. Back steps, made of huge cutoff logs, were bloodstained where he had dragged her back into the house by the hair of her
Her husband was sentenced to hang for her tortured and a vicious murder death. He tortured his wife to death.
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Husband:
Benjamin B. Myatt married 15 Nov 1897
Alias - Charlie Smith
Alias - Leather Britches Smith
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Father: General Andrew Jackson Alverson
Mother: Sarah E. Nichols
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Children:
Julius Swann Myatt
William Henry Myatt 1901-1903
Edna Louise Myatt
Annona Archie Myatt 1907-1990
Samuel Bearl Myatt 1909-1965
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Records show her Birth: 17 Oct 1881--Death: 22 Jul 1910
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Her husband once was seen to have one of his girls by the heels, swinging her around swearing he’d bash her brains out on a gallery post. But an African American man snatched the girl away and hid her in a cotton field.
He tortured his wife to death. People remember the gory, blood stained mess inside the house. There were indentions on the walls where Myatt had hurled things and missed. Furniture and iron pots were bloodied, and a window was shattered through which Myatt had hurled his wife. Back steps, made of huge cutoff logs, were bloodstained where he had dragged her back into the house by the hair of her
Her husband was sentenced to hang for her tortured and a vicious murder death. He tortured his wife to death.
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Husband:
Benjamin B. Myatt married 15 Nov 1897
Alias - Charlie Smith
Alias - Leather Britches Smith
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Father: General Andrew Jackson Alverson
Mother: Sarah E. Nichols
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Children:
Julius Swann Myatt
William Henry Myatt 1901-1903
Edna Louise Myatt
Annona Archie Myatt 1907-1990
Samuel Bearl Myatt 1909-1965
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Records show her Birth: 17 Oct 1881--Death: 22 Jul 1910
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Her husband once was seen to have one of his girls by the heels, swinging her around swearing he’d bash her brains out on a gallery post. But an African American man snatched the girl away and hid her in a cotton field.
He tortured his wife to death. People remember the gory, blood stained mess inside the house. There were indentions on the walls where Myatt had hurled things and missed. Furniture and iron pots were bloodied, and a window was shattered through which Myatt had hurled his wife. Back steps, made of huge cutoff logs, were bloodstained where he had dragged her back into the house by the hair of her
Her husband was sentenced to hang for her tortured and a vicious murder death. He tortured his wife to death.
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Husband:
Benjamin B. Myatt married 15 Nov 1897
Alias - Charlie Smith
Alias - Leather Britches Smith
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Father: General Andrew Jackson Alverson
Mother: Sarah E. Nichols
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Children:
Julius Swann Myatt
William Henry Myatt 1901-1903
Edna Louise Myatt
Annona Archie Myatt 1907-1990
Samuel Bearl Myatt 1909-1965
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Records show her Birth: 17 Oct 1881--Death: 22 Jul 1910
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Her husband once was seen to have one of his girls by the heels, swinging her around swearing he’d bash her brains out on a gallery post. But an African American man snatched the girl away and hid her in a cotton field.
He tortured his wife to death. People remember the gory, blood stained mess inside the house. There were indentions on the walls where Myatt had hurled things and missed. Furniture and iron pots were bloodied, and a window was shattered through which Myatt had hurled his wife. Back steps, made of huge cutoff logs, were bloodstained where he had dragged her back into the house by the hair of her
Her husband was sentenced to hang for her tortured and a vicious murder death. He tortured his wife to death.
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Husband:
Benjamin B. Myatt married 15 Nov 1897
Alias - Charlie Smith
Alias - Leather Britches Smith
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Father: General Andrew Jackson Alverson
Mother: Sarah E. Nichols
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Children:
Julius Swann Myatt
William Henry Myatt 1901-1903
Edna Louise Myatt
Annona Archie Myatt 1907-1990
Samuel Bearl Myatt 1909-1965
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