NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS


EDWARD PRESSLEY
EDGEFIELD COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA
1885

 

*The Palmetto Post
November 19, 1885
Page 3

       'A man by the name of Robert Jones, in Edgefield, yesterday,
killed Edward Pressley, aged 80, and his two sons,
Charles and Edward Pressley.  Jones married the
grand daughter of the first named.  All white.'

*Note:  In 1885 the Palmetto Post was published in the town of Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina