Taylor County GaArchives News.....Letter from Earnest Thompson to the Butler Herald - March 1913 March 4 1913
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The Butler Herald
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, March 4, 1913
Page One

Letter From Earnest Thompson

Editor Butler Herald
Butler, Ga.

Dear Sir:

Please say to my friends and relatives that I am still in good health and 
getting along nicely with a good kind warden and I am making my time like a 
man.  Everything here is much better than is usually found in a Georgia county 
chain gang.  I have only nine months more to serve and will then be back in old 
Taylor again.  John Hinton is also here and is making a good prisoner.  He, 
like the rest of us, has nothing to do but work.  There are about fourteen 
blacks and as many whites in this gang.  We build anywhere from three to five 
miles of good road each week.

Prison life in Georgia has been robbed of its bitterness since the abolishment 
of the cruel lease system, if the word of old time prisoners is to be taken, we 
have one man that has been here for over twenty years.

Only for the stripes you would take us for a bunch of neighbors met to work the 
road.

Hoping to be with you all soon and that this will be a lasting lesson to me.

I am with great respect,
Earnest Thompson
Milan, Ga.

R.F.D.1.



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