Kathy, Hope your trip was good. I was going to mention that I went to school with Larry Todd. ---Gerald MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL!! Gerald Lay Founding Member: 1995 Lay Family Genealogical Association www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8896 ------------------------------------------ Founding Member: 1989 Campbell County ( TN ) Historical Society cchistoricalsociety@ccdi.net ---------------------------------------------- My old Baird Page that I haven't updated in 6 years http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Country/3580/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Chasteen" <kannchasteen@sbcglobal.net> To: <TNCAMPBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE-L] Newspaper lookup "Bill" Smiddy > Elizabeth, > I don't have any more facts on the killing. However, there has been stories in our family that the murder involved a woman. Seems Alf Sharp liked his woman and moonshine. > > I do know that before his death he was married to Lillian Strunk. Alfred Sharp is buried at Red Cut Cemetery in Elk Valley, Tn. However, Lillian is not buried with him. I believe they were divorced at the time of his death. > > My step-granny who still lives in Jellico, Tn. remembers going to the funeral of Bill Smiddy. I do know he was related to the Smiddy's around that area. I was at granny's over the weekend and she is not doing very well. Sometimes now, she gets a little confused when you ask her things that happened along time ago. > > The Scott County website has a picture with a Alfred Sharp. When I showed it to granny a couple of years ago she claims it is the same Alfred Sharp as my g-uncle. > > Kathy > > Elizabeth Smiddy <smiddy@ccdi.net> wrote: > Kathy: > > I was so happy to receive the article you sent, that I failed to notice the date. Our William "Bill" Smiddy, would have been, liking 2 months, 29 years old in 1933. The article says he was 23. His death certificate states his age in 1941, at the time of his electrocution for murder, as 37years, 3 months, 19 days. That is a big difference in ages between the two Bill Smiddys, and if he were taken to jail in Williamsburg, would they have kept him there for all those years? He was only in the Kentucky State Penitentiary for 9 months and 1 day before they killed him. > > I am wondering now if this is a different William "Bill" Smiddy. It is strange though, that it happened in the same area in which our Bill Smiddy was born and raised. Do you have any follow-up articles that might mention the details of the trial and outcome of the case, or maybe who his parents were? > > Elizabeth > > > ==== TNCAMPBE Mailing List ==== > Milly Piros, List Administrator > Any problems contact me MPiros1120@aol.com > To See Previous Posts > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNCAMPBE > > > ==== TNCAMPBE Mailing List ==== > Do not spam or send derogatory comments to any other subscriber to this list. > >