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The Woolfolk Family Massacre of 1887


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135 years ago on August 6th, 1887 Bibb County, Ga experienced one of it's most infamous and heinous massacres. 9 members of the Woolfolk (pronounced Woolfork) family were bludgeoned by a wooden ax and their throats slashed. All the suspicion landed on Tom Woolfolk who was the eldest and only son from Richard Woolfolks first marriage. 

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Sources: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org

www.murderpedia.org

www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/02/bloody-woolfolk

 


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