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Convicted Farm Worker to Face Trial for Incest

Tags: Ashburn, Hugh Wilson, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), Turner County Superior Court, William F. Hughes

Daughter Captures, Father Slay Fugitive, Surrenders

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), Turner County Jail, William F. Hughes

Drunkenness Charge Nips Pair's Trip

Tags: Ashburn, K.G. Pierce, Public Works Camp

Farm Worker Convicted By Jury in Incest Case

Re: baby born in November 1957 and died in June 1958. Buried in the yard in a dresser drawer.

Helen admitted that in addition to her father, she had had sexual relations with five other men.

Tags: Aline Priest Sumner (1925-1998), Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), John Rogers, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Mrs. Ed Williams, Roy Wright (1912-1992), William F. Hughes

Farmer Faces Slay, Incest Court Trials

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Georgian Gets 20 Years in Slaying; Faces Incest Trial in Turner County

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Hounds Used in Slay Chase Near Ashburn

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), John R. West, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Invest Trail Gets Under Way

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Interesting Complication: It Grows Out of a Tift Convict Captured in Turner

Tags: Ashburn, Public Works Camp

Jury Convicts Slayer On Charges of Incest

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Lawman Sight Swamp Quarry Friday but Killer Fugitive Slips Away

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Man Hunted in Death of 'Peeping Tom'

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

40 Hunt Slayer in 'Peeper' Case

Tags: Ashburn, Ashburn Police Department, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), John R. West, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Little River, Roy Thompson, Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Peeping Tom Slayer Gets Twenty Years

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Posse Pushes Manhunt for 19-Bullet Slayer

Tags: Ashburn, Ashburn Police Department, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Thompson, Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Farm Hand is Convicted on Manslaughter Charge

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Charles V. Perry (1912-1988), Felton McCants, George Pate, Hugh Wilson, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951), Woodrow Goss

End of Five-Day Search

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Mrs. Grice

Tags: John Kennedy, Larry Wright, Liberty Cemetery, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), Roy Wright Jr.

Turner Farmer is on Trial for Shotgun Killing

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Hugh Wilson, Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Slay Fugitive, Daughter Hide in Georgia Swamp

Tags: Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Lillian Helen Wright Grice (~1942-1983), Roy Wright (1912-1992), William Franklin Huggins (1898-1951)

Turner County Courthouse floor plan

Tags: Ashburn, Turner County Courthouse

Trailblazing Educator, Coach and Long Time Community Leader

Tags: Ashburn, Black Voices News, Emmery Chapel Church, Eureka School, Hattie King (1918-2012), Hodge King (1914-1999)

Black Voice News

Tags: Ashburn, Cleatus Hopkins, Donnie Larry "Kojack" Barfield Sr. (1937-2001), Freddie James Weston Jr. (1937-2018), James "Jim" H. Applewhite (1944-2025), James Bryant, James Burks, Jimmy Lanier Alberson (1936-2019), Parents and Citizens Committee for Responsible Government, Turner County High School, Turner County School System

Letter from Allen Smith to D.C. Royal

Tags: Ashburn, D.C. Royal, Integration, Integration of Turner County Schools, Turner County School System

Death of Public Works Inmate John Wesley Kendall

Tags: Ashburn, Daniel T. Sumner (1898-1979), Ed Walker, Henry G. Zorn (1894-1978), J.J. Conner, John N. Raines (1878-1944), Lewis R. Whatley (1888-1939), Mark Rainey (1897-1952), North's Garage, Public Works Camp

Edwin A. Rogers and State Board of Corrections Correspondence

Tags: Ashburn, Edwin A. Rogers (1881-1954), Public Works Camp, Turner County Board of Commissioners

Warden's Oath of Kindred G. Pearce

Tags: Ashburn, Edwin A. Rogers (1881-1954), Kindred G. Pearce (1913-1990), Public Works Camp

Bond for Employees - Harvey B. Gill

Tags: Annelle Frances Thrasher Murphy (9/12/1897 - 6/3/1987), Ashburn, Carl C. Hill, Harvey B. Gill, Public Works Camp, T.A. Barker, Turner County Board of Commissioners, William G. Searcy (1910-2006)

Kindred G. Pearce resignation; Robert B. Brooks acting Warden

Tags: Annelle Frances Thrasher Murphy (9/12/1897 - 6/3/1987), Ashburn, Carl C. Hill, Kindred G. Pearce (1913-1990), Public Works Camp, Robert B. Brooks, T.A. Barker, William G. Searcy (1910-2006)

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