John, here is one article: Woman Enters Guilty Plea In Jablonski Murder Case WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) Annette Gilly, accused in the Yablonski family slayings, pleaded guilty today to three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy in exchange for a promise by the prosecution that it would not seek the death penalty. Mrs. Gilly, 31, of Cleveland, previously had pleaded innocent to the charges stemming from the murders more than two years ago of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter. There were news reports last week that Mrs. Gilly was expected to plead guilty and turn state's evidence against her father, Silous Huddleston, 65, a retired coal miner and former UMW official from LaFollette. Tenn., who is scheduled to go on trial in the killings next week. Sources close to the case said Mrs. Gilly discussed the slayings in detail while in Philadelphia recently, and signed a statement implicating two other persons in the crime. A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh is expected to hear pleas for an indictment against at least one of those persons later this week, sources said. Mrs. Gilly is one of five persons in custody in the slayings so far. Besides her husband and father, the others include Aubran W. "Buddy" Marin, 23, convicted and sentenced to death last fall; and Claude E. Vealey, 28, who pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence last summer. It was largely on the basis of Vealey's testimony that Martin and Gilly were convicted. Gilly was tried, found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair earlier this year. Iowa City Press Citizen; April 11, 1972 John, there are numerous articles regarding this; are you looking for something in particular?

Elizabeth, I sure am. He would be my 4th, cousin maybe closer. His Mother was (Hugh Ella) was a Prosise & so am I. I didn't get to meet Mary Jo as she had passed away in the 1970's I think. I went to Ga. to see my brother & I said the only way I will come is if you take me to Clinton, Tenn. The only way I knew about Clinton as my grandma Rogers had it written on her grave stone in Kansas. I was researching then 1964.& I knew somehpw I would get there. We found the Old Baptist Cem. not knowing Joe lived tight down the street. I Picked up a Clinton Newspaper but didn't read it until I got home to Idaho & in the paper it tells of a Dail\Prosise reunion & Joe's name was in that paperso I wrote a letter to the Postmaster asking him to forward to Joe. the most beautiful loving relaysonship grew & we stayed 2 weeks with him the next spring & the next spring. Had it not been for him I would know nothing. I really loved him & the rest of the family but Joe & I had something special. and the whole family could tell. He was so much fun & I think missed his wife. He was about 80 then. The last time I seen him I could tell he was going down hill. He went to live with his daughter and ended up in a rest home . I called but they had no phone in his room & they wouldn't bring him to a phone but I told them to please tell him Phyllis called. He died just after that. To this day I miss him so much. Do you happen to know Mary's death date & Margarets? This is wonderful please stay in contact with me. I'm so happy you contacted me my email is pmp@atcnet.net Much Love, Phyllis

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John and All, Try the archives of the Knoxville News-Sentinel dates about 1972. Time about right for the trial.. Not sure how far you can go back they go on line. K

Cuz' John, I live near in a county near to Cleveland, now, and they have a lot of information online, from newspapers, etc. You might try looking online for Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and for papers such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Press (now defunct). for information. There is also an Encyclopedia of Cleveland History online with the Cleveland Public Library, and many names can be searched online from their web pages, as well. Your local library may also be able to access the information for you, if you check.

Ya got me, all I knew that I was in Tennessee ( God's Country) All I remember is that he pointed to a building and said this is where they first started handling snakes in a Church. I didn't ask to stop. thought one may have gotten lose and still around (smile). Phyllis

>Jerry, >Do you have any info on Robert M. Yarnell that married Sarah H. Bray? > >Marriage date: 27 Aug 1865 in Anderson Co TN by A. Herrell, M.G. > >1880 Anderson Co census records were: >170-170 >Robert Yarnell W M 34 >Sarah W F 33 >Nancy W F 13 >Samuel W M 11 >Mary W F 08 >Chesly W F 06 >Anna W F 03 >Nancy Bray W F 27 (sister in law) > >Do you know who his parents were? I have Robert Minnafe Yarnell listed as the son of Joel Yarnell and Jemima Conner. However, I did a little double checking before I posted this message. I don't think I have Robert listed correctly. Robert Minnafe Yarnell age 4 was listed in the home of Joel Yarnell in the 1850 census for Anderson County. However, there is a huge gap between the age of Robert and the age of the older children. Which is to say, Robert was born about 1846 and the next previous child was born about 1826. Joel Yarnell appears to have been a widower in the 1850 census. He also appears to have been a widower in the 1840 census in Knox County (he and Jemima Conner were married in Knox County in 1807). That would argue strongly that Jemima Conner was not Robert's mother, even if Joel Yarnell was his father. Finally, Joel appears to me to have been a widower in the 1830 census in Knox County. That would argue that Jemima Conner died 1826/1830, and that Robert Minnafe Yarnell was a grandson rather than a son of Joel Yarnell. I note in passing that Chesley J. Scarbrough of Anderson County married Sarah Yarnell in Knox County in 1847. Sarah was the daughter of Joel Yarnell. So Joel may not have moved to Anderson County from Knox County until shortly before the 1850 census. Yarnell is not one of the main families that I research, so I have not looked for Yarnell tax records in Anderson County to see when they may have first arrived. On the other hand, William F. Peters married Joel's daughter Susannah Yarnell in 1845 in Anderson County. That's the only Yarnell marriage in Anderson County prior to 1850. So who knows exactly when Joel moved to Anderson County. Here is the 1850 census entry to which I refer. 16th subdivision, Anderson County, Tennessee, 27 Aug 1850 p.4b, HN 55, FN 55 Yarnell Joel 64 m w farmer $200 NC cannot R/W Nancy 41 f w TN Elizabeth 26 f w TN cannot R/W Robert M. 4 m w TN The "obvious" conclusion might is that Robert was the son of one of Joel's sons. Trouble is, the only son of Joel that I have listed is Martin W. Yarnell, and Martin was living in Knox County in 1850 with a wife and lots of kids. So I don't think Martin was Robert's father. I haven't looked for Yarnell bastardy bonds, but we cannot overlook the possibility that either Nancy or Elizabeth was the mother of Robert. I presume that Nancy and Elizabeth were both Joel's daughters rather than one or the other of them being his second wife. I certainly can't find a second marriage for Joel. Finally, there were other Yarnell men in Knox County, possible brothers or cousins of Joel. Perhaps one of them was Robert's father. Some of the names I have run across as candidates are Daniel Yarnell, Henry Yarnell, Lewis Yarnell, and Thomas Yarnell. I have not chased any of them down as possible candidates to have been the father of Robert Minnafe Yarnell. Hope this helps a little. Jerry Bryan

Thank you & I'll do that. Phyllis

I also belong to many sites, so keep up the good work, some of the new paper stories, I have heard about tem down thru the years, having a first hand account of them assist me into going back in time with a dar great grandmother whom I cherished dearly. On the whole Anderson and Campbell CO sites are quite and these stories are bringing life into them, so keep up the good work. Shirley B

Hi John: I have a book that goes into great detail about the Yablonski murders. I got it off Amazon (used) several years ago. The title is "Act of Vengeance" by Trevor Armbrister. You might still find it floating around in used book stores. Libby Bunch Smiddy

Jerry, Do you have any info on Robert M. Yarnell that married Sarah H. Bray? Marriage date: 27 Aug 1865 in Anderson Co TN by A. Herrell, M.G. 1880 Anderson Co census records were: 170-170 Robert Yarnell W M 34 Sarah W F 33 Nancy W F 13 Samuel W M 11 Mary W F 08 Chesly W F 06 Anna W F 03 Nancy Bray W F 27 (sister in law) Do you know who his parents were? Jane Altum Wilson

When I visited Clinton back in 1990, I thought I had died and gone to heven. The late Joseph Dail took us all over East Tennessee showing us all the sites and pointed out many interesting things & one was the place ( can't remember if it was a Church) but he said this is the place where they used rattle snakes in their services and many got bit. Now that I'm doing a book I would love to add that story . do any of you remember anything about it & if it's in a book ? Many Thanks, Phyllis

Hi, Thanks for that information. Haven't tried that lately, use to be everytime I would try to get information from the Plain Dealer they wanted a fee and the Ohio Libraries wanted a yearly subscription fee if you lived out of State. I have come to the point in time where I will no longer pay for information. It would probably cost ten grand or more to replace the documentation lost in a fire back a few years ago. And that doesn't count the hours spent doing research and the expense of driving over 8 states and hiting more court houses than Carter has peanuts. This little hobby can get expesive. John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

Hi Jerry, Sarah H. Bray that married Yarnell. Do you have anything on her parents and siblings? John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

I'm going to go over all my information today & get it stright in my little mind. I do believe that the "Key"'s that are in the Key- Hoskins Cemetery connect to John Wesley Key family. Just off hand I think his son's married 3 Hoskin girls. I have the cemetery list of Synder Roberts, There were many more stones then when Marry Harris did her cemetery book. There are still 2 son's I have no names for because thye had died or married and left home before the 1850 census. Isaac Miller Key, son of John went to Panola, Texas and died there 1864. Caroline Hoskins his wife came back to Clinton. My G grandfather was with them and Sarah f. Key, my G Grandmother Sarah had a son in Austin, Texas John Dudley Prosise, My gran'pa. Sarah & Husband went home to Clinton only to leave again and went to Missouri & joined the Union Army in Coal then Coalsburge , Henry Co., As soon as the war was over Sarha & Thomas Jefferson Prosise, packed up & went home to Clinton. How many other Key's went to Texas is unknown but John W Key never left nor his wife Elizabeth. I can't find John W. family nor Elizabeth. Then James W, Key & his wife had a Mary Alred, age 85 living with them in 1860 but the census didn't say who she was and another census a Mary Cox James wife was Matilda Early.I'll get back to you all when I can think stright. someone by the name of Alred has sent emails but can't be del. & don't know why. I'm not to samrt with this computer. Thanks a bunch John. Phyllis

Hi Libby, My mind is going, I had forgotten the title of the book. One of The Detectives that worked the Cleveland end of the investigation (an old acquaintance of mine) use to live here in Campbell County and he owned one of the area boat docks (your Dad use to fish there) but he removed to Florida back about 1987. I knew two of the perpetrators that lived on Payne Ave around the corner from some of my NEW RIVER,TN Cousins. This all took place a couple of months before I ETS'd from the Army and I missed the newspaper accounts. John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

Clinton, Tenn., June 14, 1869 TO THE EDITOR OF THE KNOXVILLE WHIG: - Will you be so kind as to publish this short letter for your humble servant? I wrote a letter on Saturday defining my position, and sent it to the Maryvllle Republican, then then believing that General Stokes was a stanch republican and still stood on the old radical platform, and that Senter had flew the track. In that letter, I declared for Stokes against my old friend Governor Senter, but, having heard the discussion today, I find that one is about as deep in the mud as the other in tbe mire, and knowing that the true, unsophisticated republicans were badly disappointed in the position of General Stokes, whom they had looked upon as holding the old radical doctrine, was likely to carry the State by an overwhelming majority, declaring for him all over Senter's Senatorial district, upon the ground and that ground alone; that glorious old Blount was for him for the same reasons; and seeing the Senter party, here and at Knoxville, charge beforehand that their champion should be voted for in preference to Stokes because he was for universal suffrage, and seeing the universal disappointment of the people, I propose a third candidate, who will "tote fair," who stands by the old landmarks of the radical party, where old Governor Brownlow and the much abused legislators of 1865-9 stood,who never plays the part of a demagogue, knows no tricks in politics, but moves straight forward in tbe line of his duty conscientiously, one whom you can trust. In that way we can save the party of progress from utter annihilation, save its sacred memories, its many sacrifices and herculean labors. J. A. DOUGHTY New York Herald, New York, New York, June 25, 1869

Hi Sandra, Do you have a George Sterling Capps and a Mary Alice Rucker the parents of Grace Gertrude Capps in your files by any chance? Grace was married to Luther Austin Johnson and lived in Union Co on the old road leading to Wallace Crossroads. John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

Hi Angela, Can you find an old newspaper article on the murders of Joseph "Jock" Jablonski, his wife and daughter from December 1970. Jock was running for President of the UMWA against Anthony "Tony" Boyle. This decision to run for office resulted in their deaths. The murde took place in PA, the weapons were stolen in LaFollette during a burglary and the planning took place in Middlesboro,LaFollette and Washington DC. The offenders lived in Cleveland,OH on Payne Avenue at the time but were recruited by a father-in-law of one of the males and he lived in LaFollette along with several others. John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail