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Post by smpyrtle on May 5, 2009 11:46:39 GMT -5
You're probably right Vickie. To rehash the murders would have probably just caused more hard feelings than there already was. I think it would have really been hard for the two sides to discuss it.
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Post by Angela on May 5, 2009 11:51:52 GMT -5
That makes sense Susan since the Manrings lived in Lawsonville and Arthur lived in Germanton he propably had very little contact with them. He was very close to Fannie's sister Ida and her husband Henry Ashby. I know John and Onie attended the funeral and Fannie's brother Tom and his wife Lillian and her brother Powell and his wife did also. I don't know about the others.
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Post by smpyrtle on May 5, 2009 17:14:04 GMT -5
Maria, Fannie's brother Johnnie Manring also attended the funeral. You're right the Manrings lived in Lawsonville not Germanton. Transportation wasn't as easy as it is today.
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Post by Angela on May 5, 2009 17:23:46 GMT -5
Thank you Susan for confirming one more brother being there for Fannie. I'm sure Fannie was loved by many people.... friends and neigbors as well as family. She did not deserve dying like that.
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Post by smpyrtle on May 5, 2009 18:45:54 GMT -5
You're welcome, Maria. You're right no one deserves to die like that. Especially by someone you lived with and had children with. What her last minutes must have been like. Can you imagine the terror?
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Post by Angela on May 5, 2009 18:53:01 GMT -5
No Susan I can't imagine it. She had to have been frantic knowing that her children were being killed and that she was unable to protect them. I hope she didn't hear her baby screaming but I'm sore afraid she did. What does the number 65 at the end of your post mean?
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Post by smpyrtle on May 5, 2009 19:49:31 GMT -5
I think one of the cats added the 65. He likes to help post.
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Post by debbie on May 5, 2009 20:50:01 GMT -5
Hey Susan.....looks like we all have cats that want to be comuter wiz's. Heck, I have 2 LARGE black labs, hope they don't decide to jump on the computer... hehehe
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Post by sissy on May 6, 2009 7:14:22 GMT -5
It may sound bad, but I truly hope that Fannie was either already dead or so out of it that she didn't hear the children being murdered. It just breaks my heart to think that if she wasn't she laid there knowing her children were going to die and she could do nothing about it. Another thing I wonder about, if she was conscious, did Charlie taunt her, maybe even tell her what he had done or was gonna do. I wonder if he confessed to her that he molested Marie and maybe even the other girls. We will never know what he said or did for sure that day.
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Post by smpyrtle on May 6, 2009 15:38:49 GMT -5
You're right sissy we don't know what Fannie had to endure. I'm like you I hope she was already dead and didn't hear the rest of what Charlie did.
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Post by angel71242 on May 7, 2009 7:55:26 GMT -5
I have to agree - I CANNOT image the horror of hearing your children murdered
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Post by Brian on May 7, 2009 13:21:06 GMT -5
I suspect Fannie was first or second to go (Marie, also being first or second). To make things easier, Charlie would have done in the oldest ones first. They would have put up the most resistance and caused the most trouble, putting up a fight perhaps and at least encourage the young ones to run.
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Post by Angela on May 7, 2009 13:28:32 GMT -5
I've always heard that Carrie and Maybell were the first to be killed. They were gunned down at the tobacco barn.
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Post by smpyrtle on May 7, 2009 13:34:00 GMT -5
I guess he probably killed the older ones first that were in the house. I have to believe that Fannie would have done everything she could have to protect the children if she were not already dead.
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Post by Brian on May 7, 2009 13:51:59 GMT -5
He could have killed the girls at the barn first. I was thinking (but not saying) of those in the house I think the oldest ones went first.
IF the girls at the barn were killed first, that would tend to eliminate the theory that he killed them because of an arguement with Marie. That would indicate more that the whole thing was planned.
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