As told by Great Granddaughter, Shelby Snyder Holston
In the rural area of North Florida and Southern Georgia in the Depression era (1935)very few people had an automobile, but these were God-loving Christians who attended church every chance, and to get there and back meant a walk along a path or a rural lonely road. The night Grandma Nettles along with her daughters, Aunt Lila, Aunt Carrie, and Aunt Dorothy as well as a couple of other neighbors, walked to church and as they were walking back home they were strolling along singing hymns by the dusky moonlight they saw car lights coming in the distance.
As it got nearer they moved off the road bed at the top of the ditch that bordered the road, but as it got nearer some jumped into the ditch but Grandma wasn't fast enough and the car hit her and killed her immediately. The driver didn't stop, but the car was later located by Grandmas's hair in the grill of the T-Model Ford which was at a local garage. The driver had been out drinking with a woman who had three children, which she had locked up in her home, and gone with this man who was not her husband.
Years later Aunt Lila was in nurses training and the class was to visit prison. When Aunt Lila ask to see this man the warden didn't think it was a good idea, but Aunt Lila was a beautiful woman, consequently she got her way. She went to the cell where the man was incarcerated and just stood and looked at him. He tried to flirt with her and she just stared, which was probably very un-nerving to him and after a long silence she said very quietly, "You killed my Mother," and turned and walked away.
As told by Great Granddaughter, Shelby Snyder Holston
In the rural area of North Florida and Southern Georgia in the Depression era (1935)very few people had an automobile, but these were God-loving Christians who attended church every chance, and to get there and back meant a walk along a path or a rural lonely road. The night Grandma Nettles along with her daughters, Aunt Lila, Aunt Carrie, and Aunt Dorothy as well as a couple of other neighbors, walked to church and as they were walking back home they were strolling along singing hymns by the dusky moonlight they saw car lights coming in the distance.
As it got nearer they moved off the road bed at the top of the ditch that bordered the road, but as it got nearer some jumped into the ditch but Grandma wasn't fast enough and the car hit her and killed her immediately. The driver didn't stop, but the car was later located by Grandmas's hair in the grill of the T-Model Ford which was at a local garage. The driver had been out drinking with a woman who had three children, which she had locked up in her home, and gone with this man who was not her husband.
Years later Aunt Lila was in nurses training and the class was to visit prison. When Aunt Lila ask to see this man the warden didn't think it was a good idea, but Aunt Lila was a beautiful woman, consequently she got her way. She went to the cell where the man was incarcerated and just stood and looked at him. He tried to flirt with her and she just stared, which was probably very un-nerving to him and after a long silence she said very quietly, "You killed my Mother," and turned and walked away.
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