Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Fuller (aka C.R. Davis), Garfield January 13, 1928
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Lynn Cunningham http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002535 March 13, 2010, 6:22 pm

The Pike County Journal, January 20, 1928

“Dad” Davis Electrocuted

Garfield Fuller, alias C.R. “Dad” Davis, was electrocuted last Friday at 
Milledgeville. Before the execution he made confession that he did kill Lillie 
Bell Davis, for which crime he was executed. He also confessed that he had 
killed a white man with an ax at Lake Butler, Fla., some time ago when he 
entered a house for the purpose of robbery, getting $20.00 from the person of 
the white man. He also said he knocked a white woman in the head but did not 
know whether or not he killed her. He also said he knocked a woman in the head 
in LaGrange, Ga., but did not know the result. He also killed a negro in 
Alabama. Also acknowledged that he had assaulted an old negro woman in 
Barnesville a few months ago - a short time before he killed Lillie Belle 
Davis.

Sheriff Allen, H.E. White, Bradley Wood, W.M. Marsh, J.A. Sharp were present 
at the execution. Also G.T. McDowell, father of the woman murdered; her 
husband and one or two other colored men were present.

(Transcribed 13 March 2010 - Lynn Cunningham)


Additional Comments:
Garfield Fuller murdered Lillie Bell Davis in Pike County, Georgia, on 28 
November 1927. She was born about 1901 and lived at Molena at the time of her 
death. She was buried at the African-American Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Pike 
County.

Her parents were G.T. McDowell and Emma Hall. Her death certificate states 
that they were born in Pike County.


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