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Richard Huntington Abbey

Birth: 12 Aug 1891
Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi, USA
Death: 3 Mar 1986 (aged 94)
Webb, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, USA
Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery

Sumner, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 10673740 View Source

He was a member of the 18-man Tallahatchie County grand jury that handed down indictments of murder and kidnapping against J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant on September 6, 1955, in connection with the murder of Emmitt Till. He married Mary Ellen McGavock in 1925.
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1894–1984 (m. 1925)

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1932–2009

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