Only A Few Bones: A True Account Of The Rolling Fork Tragedy And Its Aftermath - Revised Edition
Only A Few Bones: A True Account Of The Rolling Fork Tragedy And Its Aftermath - Revised Edition
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Only a Few Bones: A True Account of the Rolling Fork Tragedy and Its Aftermath; by John Phillip Colletta; 544 pp; Paper; 6x9; Published: 2015; ISBN: 0788455885; Item # HBC3270D

Family lore claimed his ancestor was murdered in Mississippi. Newspapers and court records said the man and four other victims were killed and incinerated in his remote country store. But the case was never solved. Now, after 30 years of investigating, the great great grandson of the slain carpetbagger reveals what really happened. This is a case study for how to build historical context around an ancestral event. Depicting graphically how family history and history converge.

Table of Contents

  • March 6, 1873
  • March 7, 1873
  • March 8, 1873
  • March 8, 1873, Evening
  • March 10, 1873
  • March 11, 1873
  • March 14, 1873
  • Joe and Barbara
  • The War, North
  • Buffalo
  • George
  • The War, South
  • Cotton
  • The Store
  • The Delta
  • The “Vicksburg Place”
  • March 19, 1873
  • April 9, 1873
  • April 14, 1873
  • Catherine
  • Land
  • Ring & Co.
  • Rolling Fork Landing
  • May 4, 1873
  • July 15, 1873
  • July 20, 1873
  • July 25, 1873
  • July 26, 1873, About 2–4 A.M.
  • July 26, 1873, Daytime
  • July 27, 1873
  • July 28, 1873
  • July 29, 1873
  • July 31, 1873
  • Vickburg
  • The Trials
  • Business
  • Nicholas
  • Saints Rest
  • “A Dreadful Mystery”
  • Epilogue: Grandma Ring
  • Genealogical Charts
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Author’s Note
  • Index
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