Skeletons in the Closet - Installment II

Here's a story I heard from my Aunt Mary Alice....

Lillie Evelyn, the daughter of my great-uncle Seaborn Grief Lynch, committed suicide on January 28, 1932, at the age of 29 over a love-gone-wrong. I don't know all the particulars of this suicide, but Mary Alice told me that it was because Lillie loved a young man that didn't return her love. After she died, Uncle Seab wouldn't let anyone go into her room.

I'll try to get more particulars about this story if I can.

Skeletons in the Closet - Installment I

I've been thinking today, about the fact that my grandfather (Dixon Fleetwood Lynch) shot and killed my grandmother's (Evis Pearson) father (William D. Pearson). I had heard this story before, from dad and Aunt Mary Alice, but never really knew the full story. According to a very reliable source (thanks Ronman) I now have a better understand of what really happened. Apparently, my grandfather was fooling around with one of my grandmother's sisters, and she left him because of it. At that time she was 6 months pregnant with my Uncle Sonny. It happened on January 3, 1933 on the railroad tracks near the sawmill where my grandfather was working. No one has said exactly how it happened. I'm wondering if my great-grandfather went to confront him. Anyway, both of the men had tempers, and whatever was said or took place between them, my grandfather ended up shooting and killing my great-grandfather.

The real miracle in all of this, is that my grandfather avoided going to jail for this! And I'm surprised that my grandparents went on to stay together for another 27 years and have 8 more kids together!