By LORETTA FULTON The jar containing soil from the site where Grover C. Everett was murdered in Abilene in 1922 might as well have held his ashes for the sacred way it was treated by a group of McMurry University students who recently took the glass vessel to a museum in Alabama. “That jar got carried like it was precious cargo,”
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON A ceremony commemorating the murder of a black man in Abilene in 1922 has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 27. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at 341 Ash. St., where Grover C. Everett of Sulphur Springs was shot to death at the Joe Davis Hotel for “negroes” on Saturday night, Sept. 9, 1922. According to
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By LORETTA FULTON A disturbing but significant piece of local history will be commemorated in a public ceremony April 13 when soil is collected to add to a national project marking the sites of lynchings in America. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at 341 Ash. St., where Grover C. Everett of Sulphur Springs was shot to death at the
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