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Sidney Etheridge

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Sidney Etheridge

Birth
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, USA
Death
15 Mar 1935 (aged 44)
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Donated to Medical Science. Specifically: Duke university Add to Map
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He served 23 months in France during WWI with the 81st division as a machine gunner and was in the wave of troops that broke the Hindenburgh Line. Sidney's given name was George Sidney though he often used Sidney E. Etheridge and was the son of william T. Etheridge and Fannie Emeric Dail. He was an Electrician by trade and due to being accused of a crime he did not commit on April 10th 1934. He was sentenced to die by electrocution at the Central State Prison in Raleigh, NC. According to his death certificate his body was donated to Duke University for anatomical Purposes. The person ( Mamie Lewis) who committed the crime he died for, confessed to the proper authorities on her death bed for the murder of her Aunt Mamie Moore and how she used her high heel shoe to commit the crime.
He served 23 months in France during WWI with the 81st division as a machine gunner and was in the wave of troops that broke the Hindenburgh Line. Sidney's given name was George Sidney though he often used Sidney E. Etheridge and was the son of william T. Etheridge and Fannie Emeric Dail. He was an Electrician by trade and due to being accused of a crime he did not commit on April 10th 1934. He was sentenced to die by electrocution at the Central State Prison in Raleigh, NC. According to his death certificate his body was donated to Duke University for anatomical Purposes. The person ( Mamie Lewis) who committed the crime he died for, confessed to the proper authorities on her death bed for the murder of her Aunt Mamie Moore and how she used her high heel shoe to commit the crime.


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