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re: Family Tree Criminals?
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:27 pm to Catahoula
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:27 pm to Catahoula
There is a good, solid chance several of my relatives (not ancestors, though) were involved in the Jim Bowie incident known as the Sandbar Fight (a duel that turned into a brouhaha).
So, there's that.
So, there's that.
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Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:51 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I hadn’t ever heard much about this, but the area between Ruston and Homer along hwy. 146, also known as white lighnin’, was full of outlaws around that time into the 1930’s. The nickname of white lightnin for hwy. 146 came from all the moonshiners along that route. It was a no go zone for law enforcement and it was definitely commonplace for murders to take place that were never solved. Turkey Creek was no joke back in those days.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:55 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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Holy crap! Hadn't seen that one yet. That fills in some holes and confirms some things. Thanks!
Crazy interesting shite for sure. Looks like ole Hamp lived to an old age.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 11:24 pm to Catahoula
I’m related to Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline II (c. 1715–1757), a colonist in French Louisiana. He is one of the few people to ever be executed in the Americas by the breaking wheel.
From wiki, “Governor Kerlerec had him court martialed and he was sentenced to death. He was executed by breaking wheel in front of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 7, 1757. The French authorities mutilated what were left of his remains and deposited them in the Mississippi River. A marker commemorating his life and brutal execution stands near the site.”
From wiki, “Governor Kerlerec had him court martialed and he was sentenced to death. He was executed by breaking wheel in front of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 7, 1757. The French authorities mutilated what were left of his remains and deposited them in the Mississippi River. A marker commemorating his life and brutal execution stands near the site.”
Posted on 8/8/24 at 11:32 pm to CoachChappy
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My MILs 1st cousin was killed by the Manson Family. That’s about it
Is your mil near as hot as Sharon Tate?
Posted on 8/9/24 at 7:21 am to Havoc
Yeah, Hamp was a bad old dude. He's the main reason that story is so hard to find now. He lived long enough that nobody local would risk it and by the time he was gone, so were they.
Posted on 8/9/24 at 8:09 am to Catahoula
The law set up many traps trying to catch my grandpa speeding but he was always too slow. After about 75 years of evading law enforcement, the game wardens in Wilkinson county, MS finally nabbed him for not wearing the correct mesh of hunters orange and ended his long streak of lawfulness.
This post was edited on 8/9/24 at 8:11 am
Posted on 8/9/24 at 8:34 am to Catahoula
My wife's great uncle was part of the notorious KKK gang, the silver dollar gang in Ferriday. No one knew until a picture of him showed up in the tell all book The Devil's Walking.
Posted on 8/9/24 at 8:48 am to Catahoula
I had a great uncle that was a ‘driver’ for Carlos Marcello. Family always told us that he was a good guy, and was never involved with the dirty side of that business, but after he died, I was going through some of his stuff in his garage and I found three pistols, a couple of knives, and a machete type ‘tool’ rolled up in a blanket and tucked away behind the drawer of a toolbox
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