Aiken County ScArchives Marriages.....Good, Ann - Bates, Richard  April 4, 1882
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The Aiken Reporter 11 April 1882
page 3

Marriage of Two Convicts

Richard Bates, under sentence of death for arson, to be executed on the 28th 
inst., and Ann Good, sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labor in the 
penitentiary, for grand larceny, were married in the 4th inst., at 5p,m., in the 
Greenville jail by Colonel Edward Croft. The ceremony took place in the cell of 
the jail, wherein are confined three others who, with Bates, await the execution 
of the death sentence on the 27th inst. for the same crime. The pair were 
allowed to remain together with the other prisoners through the night. On the 
morning of the 5th the bride was carried to the penitentiary to serve her term 
of imprisonment, and three weeks from that day the groom foes to the gallows. 
Both are colored.

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