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My Mom's name is Emma Brumett Armstrong. Mom recalls George Collett always riding a pony. He would often ride along with the children as they walked to school and ask if they wanted to buy his pony. He would tell them so much, usually pennies, kids being kids were excited and the next day as they walked to school he again would ask and they would have their pennies and he would say well, today a higher price. Seems like he enjoyed teasing them.
She recalls his wife lost her mind and would walk through the house saying she was walking on dead bodies and that they were under the floor.
Later, after the shootings, they discovered bodies buried under the house and in the driveway, wrapped in army type blankets. Story goes, he would kill them, take their clothes, and put them on hangers and socks in shoes. She even recalls her Dad going to his home along with others to buy clothes, not knowing where they came from. Grandpa Green only had one leg and would look for a shoe for his good foot.
Mom's cousin Earnest told her that he said that George told him that he would often lay at the end of the drive behind a mound and that he could have easily killed him many a time as he walked by. Mom said he guessed he didn't because he liked Earnest. He also told him he was involved in the mob out of Chicago.
Her cousins, the Smith twins said he had hired them to haul slate for the drive and garage.
Also in the shootings, the little girl, that was spared, Mom said she was rolled up in a rug and put under the bed. And George Collett was told she was his, and not to harm her.
Mom remembers going to the funeral in a wagon with her parents, as they had no car.
Submitted by: Jackie Miller
