Hall County GaArchives Photo Group.....Sheriff And Black Hats Of Chicopee 1934
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Front row(lf to rt): Jack Fuller, Lou Hawkins, Marvin E. Lawson, Sheriff Irvin 
L. Lawson, Homer Lawson, Clayton Smallwood, Herbert Autry and John Carter; 
Second row: Young Worley, Mr. Johnson, L.T. Deaton, Baxter Oliver, Bill Crow, 
Roy Guest, L.T. Loggins, Nesbitt Lee; Third row: Ferd Bryan, Claude Whelchel, 
Lyman Truelove, Harv Riley, Paul Eberhardt, W. Lee Land, Mr. Gravitt, Clyde T. 
Cantrell; Fourth row: Coley Cape, K.C. Johnson, Virgil Ladd, Marion Rider, 
R.E. "Sparkle" Spence, Jack Holland, Jewell Bennett, A.C. (Coy) Mays, P.H. 
Chapman; Back row: Melvin Duckett
 
The Black Hats were formed by Sheriff Lawson when the officials at Chicopee 
requested that the sheriff have some deputized men ready in case of any 
disturbance from the union dispute (which never did cause any problems). The 
second time the sheriff used the Black Hats was when President Roosevelt came 
to Gainesville to dedicate the new court house after the tornado. Most of this 
information was gathered from mr. Roy Guest, the only know living Black Hat in 
1981.
 
Taken from the book: Law Enforcement in Hall County, 1818-1980 by Willard J. 
Langdon

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