LOL!!! I may need to!

That's awesome!!! The funniest thing is, one of my coworkers tells me when I retire I should open a fortune teller business. HA!!! Little did she know.....

those sealed closet doors, there's really no telling what we will learn about our family!

And it leaves me with questions. While the "assigns" were hailed as heros at the time, did George ever realize how he participated in cold blooded murder? Did he have remorse? Or was he driven by fear of being targeted or even being held accountable? There's no real way to know. When we pry open

There has even been a movie - a 1999 movie staring Christopher Walken called Vendetta based on the story. Yet I don't even know who in the family was aware of the explosive news. My mom never mentioned it - and she remained close to at least two of her cousins, daughters of George.

many news articles published upon his death (15 Jul 1955). I'd never heard of the event and I doubt many people have but it was pretty explosive at the time and caused international issues with Italy.

Tampa and lived there until his death. And he dropped a bombshell upon his passing. A bombshell in the form of a confession. A bombshell in the form of a letter confessing to being the last living assign in what has been referred to as the largest lynching in American history. Here's one of the

Four days after the divorce, Zetta married insurance agent Carl Walker, who stepped in as if George never existed. My mom, born in 1929, had no memory of even meeting her uncle George and recalls very little of family talking about him. At some point, George settled near (continued in next thread)

their long marriage - their children being born in mostly different cities. George was a newspaper man. Aunt Zetta was an imposing woman who operated boarding houses and owned grocery stores. Zetta and George divorced on 1 April 1922 and George all but disappeared from the city and the family.

Born 28 October 1868 in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, he was my mother's uncle. He married my grandfather's oldest sister, Zetta Hollis, on 26 Jul 1902. They would have four daughters and a son during their 20 year marriage. (a fifth daughter would be stillborn). They moved around a lot during