Show FRANCES WOODS GRAVE CRAVE monument U now markt marks the spot abere she was war murdered A beautiful marble monument in spartanburg county S C bears upon it this sign significant ficano inscription to the memory of miss frances heaton wood who died in defense of her virtue the monument nt is of white marble stands fifteen feet on a massive stone base and bears every mark of simplicity and purity it never neer fails to attract the attention of strangers who may be in ID tha that t part of the state and is probably the only monument manu meat eat in the world erected by strangers to a stranger for or the single motive botne that inspired those simple country people of the calmett tt state stae the story of woman and her hei horrible fate is told by b col NV G field of pickens county S C who knew her well and Is familiar with the circumstances of her death 1 I 1 met her at easley S C the day she left the county count she was traveling alone to her sisters house on h her or way she called at the residence of a white man of the name of moore to get directions moore told her a near way I 1 through a large bod body of forest tim bared land to the road leading to her destination and proposed to accompany bany her on the road as there was only a dim unused trail wro way through there she indignantly refused to allow him to accompany her and that ww was the last seen of her except by that demon until her dead robbed and mutilated body bol was found by the buzzards when found her money and jewelry were gone her dead mutilated form with her hair pulled out and z scattered catt ered t I 1 around her and her clothing torn into shreds was a most horrible sight all the surroundings went to prove most mast conclusively that she fought till she died suspicion at once rested upon devil john moore as he was known aud he when caught carried conclusive sive proof of his guilt of the struggle he engaged in with her the entire country turned out to assist in the capture and lynching lunching lyn ching of the demon it vas as some twenty four hours before he was captured her body had lada about three days before i being discovered when caught ne be was carried to the battle ground and there without any disguise in the presence of a thousand witnesses he paid the penalty which was heartily approved by everybody eer body she died among strangers yet among friends who gave gae her body t FRANCES WOOD decent burial and erected a monument to her memory all this occurred nearly twenty years ago |