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Sandal Edmonds “Eddie” <I>Beamguard</I> Pullen

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Sandal Edmonds “Eddie” Beamguard Pullen

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27 May 1982 (aged 99)
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Clover, York County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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First husband was Reverend Thurston U Vaughn. He was convicted in 1912 after confessing to the sexual abuse of five girls at the SC Oddfellows Orphanage. He was sentenced to die on 20 Dec 1912 but escaped from custody in Greenville Co jail and fled to Baltimore. He was captured while attending Sunday school and was brought back to SC and held in the penitentiary. He was evaluated and deemed insane though no question as to his sanity had previously been raised. With the finding he avoided execution and was sent to the asylum in Columbia whence he escaped with apparent assistance in 1919 and made his way to Tampa, FL where he got a job teaching and lived under the alias, T A Earl. He married there Sandal Beamguard who had met him while working as a nurse at the asylum in SC. She left her employment at the asylum several months after Thurston made his escape. They married in Apr 1920. Someone familiar with both of them spotted them on the street in Tampa in 1921 and made report of Thurston's whereabouts to SC authorities. He was arrested and held in the Tampa jail where he again avoided his sentence by ending his own life by slitting his throat. Sandal would remarry several years later.
First husband was Reverend Thurston U Vaughn. He was convicted in 1912 after confessing to the sexual abuse of five girls at the SC Oddfellows Orphanage. He was sentenced to die on 20 Dec 1912 but escaped from custody in Greenville Co jail and fled to Baltimore. He was captured while attending Sunday school and was brought back to SC and held in the penitentiary. He was evaluated and deemed insane though no question as to his sanity had previously been raised. With the finding he avoided execution and was sent to the asylum in Columbia whence he escaped with apparent assistance in 1919 and made his way to Tampa, FL where he got a job teaching and lived under the alias, T A Earl. He married there Sandal Beamguard who had met him while working as a nurse at the asylum in SC. She left her employment at the asylum several months after Thurston made his escape. They married in Apr 1920. Someone familiar with both of them spotted them on the street in Tampa in 1921 and made report of Thurston's whereabouts to SC authorities. He was arrested and held in the Tampa jail where he again avoided his sentence by ending his own life by slitting his throat. Sandal would remarry several years later.

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