"According to the recommendation of two grand juries, Ordinary Joe Mellancock [McHancock] has purchased a farm located between Sycamore and Ashburn for a county farm for Turner County. The buildings on the farm are to be used for convict camps and a…
"You and the people here at the Turner County Public Works Camp have been good to me, and you have helped me, and I want to stay here in Turner County, he said."
Patrick Carter, an escaped inmate, voluntarily returns to TC PWC
This portrait is part of a matching set with James Simon "J.S" Shingler and Emma Shipman Baldwin Shingler. On the back of the portrait of Emma, there is a handwritten note: "From D (illegible) W Migraths Portrait Copying & Picture Frame House 125…