Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Measles, Jane July 1899
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Our Mountain Home
Flora Turner, a negro woman, is in jail at this place, where she was brought 
from Idaho, Clay County, on the charge of murder. The crime was a horrible one. 
Mrs. Jane Measles, a white woman, and her 16-year-old daughter were driving some 
hogs belonging to the negro woman from their fields, using rocks for the 
purpose.  The negro woman came to the rescue of her hogs and a heated colloquy 
between the women ensued. The negro woman finally knocked Mrs. Measles down with 
a club. About this juncture her husband came up and he, too, beat Mrs. Measles 
with a club until she was dead, and brutally kicked the girl until she was 
senseless and terribly injured internally. The negress was captured soon after 
the tragedy and hurried to Talladega to prevent lynching. The man has not been 
captured. "Necktie" parties are now after him.

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