On 14 December 1912, Wesley Edwards entered the penitentiary to serve
his twenty-seven year sentence for his part in the "Hillsville
Massacre." After his pardon in 1926, Edwards operated a filling station
in Henrico County before dying from influenza in 1939. 

 
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onday-special-edition-wesley-edwards-no-11218/
 

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