Mary Jane Kincaid chose the epitaph "She was the flower of our home" for her daughter's marker, for the words seemed to describe the bright, friendly girl. Gladys, just turned 15, was working at a nearby hoisery mill when tragedy struck. It had not been an easy time for the Kincaids, for they had lost Gladys' father James 5 years before. There were three grown sons, Walter, Harvey, and Lonnie, and four children younger than Gladys: Willie, Cecil, Alvin, and Lillie.
While she was walking home from work,Gladys was assaulted. She died of a fractured skull. The perpetrator was identified by the clothes he had left in the woods. The man was chased to a mountain town about thirty miles away where he was shot by a sheriff's posse led by then Sheriff Hallyburton. His body was brought back and left in the courthouse square, where more than 6,000 people came to view it. It was a shocking experience for a small southern town, and a horrible tragedy for the Kincaid family.
The people of Morganton paid for Gladys's tombstone, a marble lamb made by Denton stoneworks.
While she was walking home from work,Gladys was assaulted. She died of a fractured skull. The perpetrator was identified by the clothes he had left in the woods. The man was chased to a mountain town about thirty miles away where he was shot by a sheriff's posse led by then Sheriff Hallyburton. His body was brought back and left in the courthouse square, where more than 6,000 people came to view it. It was a shocking experience for a small southern town, and a horrible tragedy for the Kincaid family.
The people of Morganton paid for Gladys's tombstone, a marble lamb made by Denton stoneworks.
Mary Jane Kincaid chose the epitaph "She was the flower of our home" for her daughter's marker, for the words seemed to describe the bright, friendly girl. Gladys, just turned 15, was working at a nearby hoisery mill when tragedy struck. It had not been an easy time for the Kincaids, for they had lost Gladys' father James 5 years before. There were three grown sons, Walter, Harvey, and Lonnie, and four children younger than Gladys: Willie, Cecil, Alvin, and Lillie.
While she was walking home from work,Gladys was assaulted. She died of a fractured skull. The perpetrator was identified by the clothes he had left in the woods. The man was chased to a mountain town about thirty miles away where he was shot by a sheriff's posse led by then Sheriff Hallyburton. His body was brought back and left in the courthouse square, where more than 6,000 people came to view it. It was a shocking experience for a small southern town, and a horrible tragedy for the Kincaid family.
The people of Morganton paid for Gladys's tombstone, a marble lamb made by Denton stoneworks.
While she was walking home from work,Gladys was assaulted. She died of a fractured skull. The perpetrator was identified by the clothes he had left in the woods. The man was chased to a mountain town about thirty miles away where he was shot by a sheriff's posse led by then Sheriff Hallyburton. His body was brought back and left in the courthouse square, where more than 6,000 people came to view it. It was a shocking experience for a small southern town, and a horrible tragedy for the Kincaid family.
The people of Morganton paid for Gladys's tombstone, a marble lamb made by Denton stoneworks.
