In late summer 1899, somewhere near Travelers Rest, Tom Keith drew his last breath.
An online database lists Keith among the lynching victims of 1860-1950, and cites the method of his death as riddled by bullets.
Robert Williams kidnapped and murdered in 1881
White residents of Greenville and Anderson counties participated in the 1881 kidnap and murder of a Black man.
That man was Robert Williams. He was a husband and a father of two children. He was also accused of assaulting a white woman.
Ira Johnson hung from a tree in 1895
Ira Johnson s lifeless body was found by a child, hanging from a tree in Greenville s San Souci during an early morning in July 1895, according to the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County.
If you ever had the good fortune to be in the same room with Pete Clary, be that a courtroom or a barroom, odds are good you might have heard him before you saw him.
Not that Clary, the first chief public defender for Forsyth County, was overly loud. He wasnât. Rather, it was because he was passionate in his beliefs and heâd express them in no uncertain terms - no matter who was listening.
âMy most vivid memory of Pete isnât of him as a public defender,â said Tom Keith, the longtime district attorney and familiar foil. âIt s him holding court down there at First Street Draught House after 5 oâclock on a Thursday or a Friday. It was never the same without him down there.â
By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com
Dec 14, 2020
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POUGHKEEPSIE- Members of the Dutchess County Legislature are scheduled to receive a $477 raise in 2021 while county employees will not be receiving raises due to financial woes created by the pandemic. Thirteen lawmakers are pledging to donate their raises to charities of their choice.
In 2019, the prior legislative body approved a three percent increase for the 2021 calendar year. The 2019 action scheduled legislators’ salaries to be raised from $15,914 to $16,391. State and Dutchess County laws prohibited the current legislature from changing their own salary in the 2021 county budget.