Just look at them!
The women have silk suits
And the men suits not from Sears
Billy Graham's wife always went to Sears
For his suits in the early days
They were practical to get
And all those kids to feed at home!
But these guys.
Half brothers from the same mother
It never does elaborate what they do
For a living but she is a stay-at-home mother
Of two boys and just 21 years old.
Not your typical set of murderers.
Her name was Carolyn
Bryant is the family name
They came from Ireland
In fact they were deported
By Cromwell himself!
King William Bryant
Was an Irish rebel with royal blood
He wanted to be the ruler of Ireland.
Any other time and he might have been
But this year he was deported with his large family
To Jamestown by Cromwell instead of going to the gallows
Probably because he was right.
He was of royal blood and entitled.
His descendant Henry choose
To annoy the family with Indians
Women of the tribe of Powhaten
Not Pocahontas but one of her sisters
Or cousins, after all the quickest way
To becoming a land owner in the early days
Was to marry one of them.
The Romans did it as well
In long ago Britan
Except they did it by force.
One of these boys had a darker side
To hide or at least not reveal
His true identity in the time forgotten.
No longer seen as leaders
He ended up moving to a reservation.
So he was not unaware of his heritage
Which at the time was almost as damning.
His boys and him are seen seated in court
His arms around them
Don't convict a man whose boys will have no father.
It was a different time.
The lawyers chose to emphasis his role as father.
Then hers as a good wife.
He would later divorce her and marry anther
Vera was her name
She was a descendant of the Roosevelts.
Of New Amsterdam!
Makes one wonder what really happened.
His name was Emmett.
Till was the family name
His father was several generations back
On one side they are Taliaferro's
Also related to Booker Taliaferro Washington
Small groups mingle
They had killed one of those boys
Who had a famous relative!
Or was it something else?
His face was covered
They say they mutilated him.
Un recognizable even to his own mama
She did not care
She knew it was him
And she wanted revenge
She got her story
But not the results
Who was going to convict those
Fathers with sons of their own?
After all she had lost her husband.
Oh, yes, her husband was in the military.
He served his country in Europe.
And then died in Pisa Italy.
Pisa, Italy where the tower leans...
How he came to die in that place
Where he was stationed before coming home
No one knows
But Emmet was born the same year
Born to a widow
A fatherless boy
The law is strange in its delivery.
Her husband was already gone
And she had not taken care of his boy
Had remarried a few times according
To the news.
Being a Smith was nothing compared
To this other family
Who had it all to loose.
A war hero whose body
Never made it home
But is buried in France.
Compared to working fellows
With attractive wives.
Thier boys had a right to a life.
Sadly they did not live very long
Did nothing with their lives.
Even Grandpa Bryant died
Shortly after the trail.
Why was the boys face attacked?
Was he seen as too attrative?
Or was he related to someone in town
Who did not want those features?
To stand out in the crowd?
Or was he offered an escape
To go live somewhere else
If he would just give up his mama?
One can only wonder after all these years
She is now dead
Having admitted to lying about the events
But not to whom killed the boy.
His youngest cousin is still alive
Now a preacher man himself.
Do you think he buys his suits
From the Sears and Roebuck Catalog?
No one has ever told a different story
No one has ever confessed
No one knows for sure if those boys
Did do the dirty job.
Irish royals with a twist of Cleopatra Powhaten
In their blood who could have
Run for President if they had wanted
Verses the other line if defense
A descendant of an Italian count
Who has many other descendants
Of noteworthy reputations.
One does wonder what fuels.
This country or did
Half a century ago.
Pure hatred and spite
Is what most German white people?
Once were instead of syrup niceness.
Never trust anyone you dont know
And wonder how you do know them
It might have been Grandpa after all...
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