Married
Father: Tom Gill
Mother: Pearl Collins
Cause: gunshot
Burial: Obion Cemetery, Obion TN
Source: TN Death Certificate∼Ed Gill, a 65 year old deaf man, was found dead, with a bullet wound in the bacl of his head, in the middle of Peebles Road, early yesterday morning. His 44 year old wife is being detained for questioning by the sheriff's office.
Mr. Gill was a rip sawyer for Wabash Screen Door Company. He was found at 2 AM just west of Grant's Corner on Peebles less than a mile from his home. He and his wife, Mrs. Alma Gill, lived at the corner of Ford and Dixie Roads. (3077 Ford Road ) Sheriff Thompson said Mr. Gill had been shot with a 38-caliber gun. Mr. Gill's body was found by a neighbor who was on hos way home from work.
Mr. Gill's mother-in-law, Mrs. W.M. Herring, who lived with the Gills, told a reporter her daughter was innocent. She said her daughter was in bed at the time Mr. Gill was killed. . She said he had been terribly drunk for weeks.
An employer of the victim said he had worked at the same place for 10 or 15 years and had never been out of line. The Gills have three children.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Monday, January 3, 1949.
** His wife, Alma Theede, was found innocent by a jury whom she had convinced a jury that he was abusing her. He is buried in Obion County, TN. **
Father: Tom Gill
Mother: Pearl Collins
Cause: gunshot
Burial: Obion Cemetery, Obion TN
Source: TN Death Certificate∼Ed Gill, a 65 year old deaf man, was found dead, with a bullet wound in the bacl of his head, in the middle of Peebles Road, early yesterday morning. His 44 year old wife is being detained for questioning by the sheriff's office.
Mr. Gill was a rip sawyer for Wabash Screen Door Company. He was found at 2 AM just west of Grant's Corner on Peebles less than a mile from his home. He and his wife, Mrs. Alma Gill, lived at the corner of Ford and Dixie Roads. (3077 Ford Road ) Sheriff Thompson said Mr. Gill had been shot with a 38-caliber gun. Mr. Gill's body was found by a neighbor who was on hos way home from work.
Mr. Gill's mother-in-law, Mrs. W.M. Herring, who lived with the Gills, told a reporter her daughter was innocent. She said her daughter was in bed at the time Mr. Gill was killed. . She said he had been terribly drunk for weeks.
An employer of the victim said he had worked at the same place for 10 or 15 years and had never been out of line. The Gills have three children.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Monday, January 3, 1949.
** His wife, Alma Theede, was found innocent by a jury whom she had convinced a jury that he was abusing her. He is buried in Obion County, TN. **
Married
Father: Tom Gill
Mother: Pearl Collins
Cause: gunshot
Burial: Obion Cemetery, Obion TN
Source: TN Death Certificate∼Ed Gill, a 65 year old deaf man, was found dead, with a bullet wound in the bacl of his head, in the middle of Peebles Road, early yesterday morning. His 44 year old wife is being detained for questioning by the sheriff's office.
Mr. Gill was a rip sawyer for Wabash Screen Door Company. He was found at 2 AM just west of Grant's Corner on Peebles less than a mile from his home. He and his wife, Mrs. Alma Gill, lived at the corner of Ford and Dixie Roads. (3077 Ford Road ) Sheriff Thompson said Mr. Gill had been shot with a 38-caliber gun. Mr. Gill's body was found by a neighbor who was on hos way home from work.
Mr. Gill's mother-in-law, Mrs. W.M. Herring, who lived with the Gills, told a reporter her daughter was innocent. She said her daughter was in bed at the time Mr. Gill was killed. . She said he had been terribly drunk for weeks.
An employer of the victim said he had worked at the same place for 10 or 15 years and had never been out of line. The Gills have three children.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Monday, January 3, 1949.
** His wife, Alma Theede, was found innocent by a jury whom she had convinced a jury that he was abusing her. He is buried in Obion County, TN. **
Father: Tom Gill
Mother: Pearl Collins
Cause: gunshot
Burial: Obion Cemetery, Obion TN
Source: TN Death Certificate∼Ed Gill, a 65 year old deaf man, was found dead, with a bullet wound in the bacl of his head, in the middle of Peebles Road, early yesterday morning. His 44 year old wife is being detained for questioning by the sheriff's office.
Mr. Gill was a rip sawyer for Wabash Screen Door Company. He was found at 2 AM just west of Grant's Corner on Peebles less than a mile from his home. He and his wife, Mrs. Alma Gill, lived at the corner of Ford and Dixie Roads. (3077 Ford Road ) Sheriff Thompson said Mr. Gill had been shot with a 38-caliber gun. Mr. Gill's body was found by a neighbor who was on hos way home from work.
Mr. Gill's mother-in-law, Mrs. W.M. Herring, who lived with the Gills, told a reporter her daughter was innocent. She said her daughter was in bed at the time Mr. Gill was killed. . She said he had been terribly drunk for weeks.
An employer of the victim said he had worked at the same place for 10 or 15 years and had never been out of line. The Gills have three children.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Monday, January 3, 1949.
** His wife, Alma Theede, was found innocent by a jury whom she had convinced a jury that he was abusing her. He is buried in Obion County, TN. **
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