Legacy of Sheriff Henry Howard in Aiken racial killings
Aiken County records recount the 1926 bootleg operation raid near Monetta that killed Sheriff Henry Hampton Howard and deputy Nellie Anderson amid a family gunfight with the Lowmans. Demon and Clarence Lowman were later executed in a lynching, while Annie and Bertha Lowman faced murder convictions overturned on appeal.
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Aiken
Aiken County
Henry Hampton Howard
Monetta
Journal and Review
Aiken Standard
Sam Lowman
Lowman
Annie
Bertha
Annie Lowman
Nellie Anderson
Demon
Clarence
Howard
Henry Howard
Columbia-Aiken Highway
Nellie Robinson
Clarence Lowman
Bertha Lowman
Lowmans
Supreme Court
U.S
John Johnson
Palmetto
Philadelphia
South
Zippy Mart Shooting Unsolved After 1979 Double Slaying
The January 4 1979 killings of Charles E Holoway 41 and Mary W Holoway 37 at the Whiskey Road Zippy Mart in North Augusta remain unsolved. Deputies found three spent shotgun shells beside the bodies after a 2 55 to 3 28 a m patrol check. Proceedings over the years yielded multiple charged suspects who were later cleared.
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Whiskey Road
North Augusta
Charles E. Holoway
Mary W. Holoway
Aiken County
Paul Grant
Carl Langley
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Greg Warfield
Federa Bank
Janice Hauer
Mike Markwalter