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The Pearl Bryan Murder Mystery

Tue, Nov 10 · 1:00 PM Arlington Mill

In this presentation, genealogist and family historian Susan Court will recount the murder of a young woman named Pearl Bryan in 1896 and how that tragedy reverberated throughout her family’s stories for decades as it pertained to her great uncle Alfie Court, an immigrant from Manchester, England and a famous pedestrian.

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