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Persoonlijke gegevens Victor Grantham Spivey 

• Hij is geboren op 11 september 1899 in Columbus County, North Carolina.Bronnen 2, 3
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1900, S. Williams Township,Columbus County, North Carolina (Family #144).Bron 4
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1910, Tabor City,Columbus County, North Carolina (Family #5).Bron 4
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1920, Town of Tabor,Columbus County, North Carolina (Family #122).Bron 4
• Hij is overleden op 4 april 1975 in Horry County,South Carolina, hij was toen 75 jaar oud.Bron 3
• Hij is begraven in Twin City Memorial Gardens,Loris,Horry County,South Carolina.
• Een kind van Isaac Jackson Spivey en Mattie Cornelius Grantham
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 12 augustus 2006.

Gezin van Victor Grantham Spivey

Hij had een relatie met Retha Prince.

Kind(eren):

1. Donald Spivey  
2. Earl Jackson Sr. Spivey   
3. Herman Devon Spivey   
4. Robert Howell Spivey  
5. Victor Wendell Spivey   
6. Edward Prince Spivey  1920-1996
7. Richard Grant Spivey  1927-1977

Notities over Victor Grantham Spivey

Copied from The News Reporter Centennial Edition, October, 1996
Page 64, 66, 67
Note: There is a picture of Jailer Louis Spivey on Page 67, Courtesy ofHub McGirt

Ammons, jailer hold off mob to avert lynching here in 1923
Killer indicted, tried, convicted in 9.5 hours

After Sheriff John Ammons and Jailer Louis Spivey, armed with only apistol and shotgun, held off a mob of about 300 men at the ColumbusCounty Jail in 1923, a group of National Guard troops from Wilmington,with bayonets unsheathed, rushed to Whiteville by train to keep thekiller of a Fair Bluff
policeman alive.

The prisoner - escaped convict Bob Williams - was saved from a mob at thejail on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Jan. 28, and the attemptto lynch the black man didn't succeed. Ammons said, because it appearedthe mob didn't have a real leader. No one wanted to take the step towardthe sheriff
and Jailer Louis Spivey that would have caused them to shoot.

The next day, a regularly scheduled term of Superior Court opened inWhiteville; the grand jury convened at 11 a.m., returned a true bill formurder of Bradley Cribb, a deputized policeman from Fair Bluff at 11:30;Williams was arraigned at 2:30 p.m., where he pleaded not guilty; a trialbegan after attorneys were appointed to defend him; the jury got the caseat 8:00 p.m.; returned a verdict of guilty of first degree murder 15minutes later; and he was sentenced to die - nine hours and 15 minutesfrom
indictment to sentencing. Williams was put to death in the state'selectric chair on March 1 - 31 days later.

Reports by state newspapers relate the following information:

Williams was a resident of New Hanover County, and had been sentenced toserve time on the county farm there for robbery. He escaped in 1922, andused a pistol to hold up the owner of a Brunswick County store and steala large sum of cash, but was caught after being shot in the head bypursuers and
sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Williams, however, escaped from prison, and was on the run when heappeared in the Town of Bolton on Wednesday, Jan. 24. Sheriff Ammons wasalso in Bolton, but unarmed. He borrowed a pistol and went afterWilliams, and found him. The two of them had a running gun battle forabout 30 minutes, with at least 25 shots fired, but no one injured.Williams escaped from Ammons, and Columbus County residents were on edge.

Williams appeared in Fair Bluff the next day, when he robbed JamesCultar, a black railroad section hand, at gunpoint. Cultar reported theincident, and Bradley Cribb, a farmer, was deputized by the Fair Bluffmayor, because the police chief was out of town. Also deputized wasJames Davis, and he and
Cribb found that Williams and another man, Jim Phifer, were in a FairBluff store, where they reportedly planned to commit robbery.

Cribb and Davis approached Williams and Phifer. The officers commandedthem to raise their hands in surrender. Phifer did, but Cribb raised onlyhis left arm, and grabbed his pistol with his right hand. At that instantCribb fired, and the bullet hit Williams' leg. Williams fired and thebullet hit Cribb in the right chest. The officer "fell face downward,then rolled over on his back." Cribb was rushed by train to Wilmingtonbut doctors couldn't save him. He died early that Friday morning.Williams, meanwhile, rushed from the store and escaped.

A large posse was formed and Williams was followed into the Causeysection of neighboring Horry County, S.C. Williams bribed a man to gethim a vehicle so he could leave and return to the Bolton area. PeteDavis, the man who Williams offered money for the arrangement, told hisboss, W.C. Rushing,
about the deal, and Rushing agreed to take Williams to Bolton. Beforeleaving, Rushing contacted Ammons and told him about what time they'd bein the Whiteville area. Ammons met the car, and without gunplay, arrestedWilliams.

Ammons wanted to move Williams to another county before news of thecapture spread, but all roads from Whiteville were blocked before thesheriff could move the prisoner.

The mob moved toward the Courthouse area, and headed to the jail.Congressman Homer Lyon and other county leaders met the very large groupof men, talked their leaders into letting the law take care of thesituation, and the leaders backed off.. But, most of the rest did not.They continued to the jail, and none wanted to take the next step whenconfronted with Ammons and Spivey.

Solicitor Woodus Kellum was called by Ammons, notified of the situation,and quickly called the governor, and the National Guard troops of theWilmington Light Infantry, rushed to Whiteville by train. They wereconveyed to the courthouse area by trucks and cars from the railroaddepot, having to
break through a portion of the mob to reach the scene. Soldiers wereposted, with bayonets fixed to their rifles, around the jail, and the mobdispersed, but not very far. The next day, as the court action started,four soldiers sat around Williams in the courtroom. One man yelled out,"Lynch him," and was removed from the courtroom by other troops.

When Clerk of Court Stanley rose to take the jury's verdict, his voicequivered, because he knew a verdict of second-degree murder would cause ariot. The verdict of first-degree was taken by Judge N.A. Sinclair, andhe immediately told Williams he would be electrocuted.

After conviction, Williams was hustled out of the courthouse to the trainstation, and the troops had to hold the crowd back with bayonets to boardthe train. Williams was taken to Wilmington, then transferred to Raleigh.

Congressman Lyon, plus Donald McRackan and Knox Proctor, law partner ofState District Attorney Ivan Tucker, were appointed for Williams'sdefense. Proctor pleaded for a second-degree murder verdict.
Ammons ran for re-election in the Democrat primary in 1924, and lost toClyde M. Gore in a runoff. Ammons reclaimed the sheriff's post bydefeating Gore in 1926.

Editor's note:
Horace M. Powell of Fair Bluff had scheduled a business trip toWilmington and was on the train that Thursday night [Jan. 25] that tookthe fatally injured Cribb to Bullock hospital.

"I don't know if Daddy rode in the baggage car with Mr. Cribb or not.They had Mr. Cribb on a stretcher. I do know that when Daddy got back thenext day, he told us that he had given a pint of blood to Mr. Cribb tohelp save his life." Said Martha Powell Pate of Fair Bluff, Powell'sdaughter.

John Patrick Waddell, Jr. was the mayor of Fair Bluff, and the "policechief" who was out of town was Constable B.W. Hammonds, according toChristine Waddell Stevens.

Cribb ran after Williams after the robbery and they exchanged shotsbehind the building housing a second-floor skating rink, near therailroad and at the rear of the Baptist Church. Williams hid in Barden'sBay, and used a horse to get to the Hinson's Crossroads area. He wastrailed there because of
a trail of blood from his leg wound, Mrs. Stephens added.

Copied from THE NEWS REPORTER CENTENNIAL EDITION, OCTOBER 1996

1926
Deputy kills 2 men, 1st festival honors 'berry, new bank formed

The year 1926 saw many new story subjects in the pages of The NewsReporter, but there was old subject of people dying in shootings. It's ayear that Victor Spivey, one of the "rural policemen" for the county,would never forget.

Spivey shot and killed two men in separate incidents in less than 60days. One happened on Friday, Jan. 15, and the second on March 6.

Like always, major headlines were reserved for shootings [there were morethan just Spivey's,] tobacco, strawberries, saw mills, schools and localgovernment - just about the way it is 70 years later.

Hit with wrench

The Jan 21 issue had a three-column headline "Officer Exonerated In FatalShooting Dock Ward Friday." [Note, if there was room for only therequired nouns, words such as "of" and "the" were left out of headlines.]The small "drop heads" noted that a coroner's jury had ruled that RuralPoliceman Victor Spivey had shot in self-defense when he killed Dock Wardof Mollie. Spivey, aided by his father Isaac Spivey and Will Ward,policeman from Mt. Tabor, went to Ward's home in the Mollie communitywhere he found Ward, his 14-year old son D.T. Ward, and men named G.R.Ward and G.K. Andrews. It was
night, and the officers found the group making whiskey in the fireplace.

All four were arrested, but there wasn't room for those arrested and theofficers in one car, so Dock Ward's car was also used, Policeman Spiveyand Dock rode together, and the group started to Whiteville.

About three miles from Dock Ward's home, Dock's car had motor troubleabout 5 a.m. While repairing the car, Dock got a "heavy socket wrench,"and ran into the darkness.

Spivey ran him down, and Dock fought back, Spivey was hit in the head twoor three times by the wrench. Spivey was knocked to the ground. He drewhis pistol, told Ward to stop. Ward leaned over him and began to swingthe wrench again, and Spivey fired three shots. Ward recoiled, andstumbled off in the darkness.

A group headed by Sheriff Clyde Gore search for Ward, but could not findhim for about five hours. He was found curled behind some thick bushes -still alive - about 50 yards from where he had been shot.

He was taken to Whiteville, treated for his wounds, and moved to aWilmington hospital the next day, where he died early Monday.

Second Shooting

Rural Policeman Victor Spivey was again the central figure in a Page 1story on March 11. Spivey, and fellow policeman Albert Sasser, with someothers, had gone to the Mt. Olive section north of Whiteville andChadbourn in search of a reported whiskey still.

They found the still, and also a man described as the "moonshiner"operating the equipment. Sasser tried to arrest the suspect; a very largeman named James Murphy. But, Murphy wrestled with Sasser and took hispistol away from him.

Murphy fired three shots at Sasser, two hit him and a third grazed hisleft arm. As Murphy turned toward the oncoming Spivey, the policemanfired several times and killed Murphy. This was Spivey's second deadlyshooting of the year.

On another note..

The Nov 25, 1926 issue noted a "Miss Whiteville" beauty contest wasbeing run by the local high school seniors. Votes cost one cent each, andcandidates were Rachel Grady, Katherine Lyon, Sibyl Skiles, Lila MaeDyson, Jesse Spivey, Carolina Best, Elsie Pugh, Augusta Webb and RuthWoods. Spivey won with 4,383 votes [$43.83.]

Note: Everything you just read was very graciously contributed by LillianSoles Spivey.

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