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- ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life . January 1928. p. 19.
- ↑ "Sheriff is Killed by Crazed Negro". Memphis Evening Appeal . June 17, 2020. p. 1. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ "Posse Kills Negro". The New York Times . June 18, 1927. p. 14. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ McFarlin, Shannon (Spring 2013). "Reminiscence: The Lady Sheriff of Henry County" (PDF). Paris! Henry County and the Lake Area. p. 11. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
