| Summary: | This is an advertisement for Rev. John L. Legg's painting and contracting business, and a photograph of Legg. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "John L. Legg (1867-1953) was a Baptist pastor who was also a painter and contractor who took orders out of the Arnold-Fite Drug Store in 1907. Legg’s first wife Carry Fogg died Friday, June 25,1897. On September 21, 1905 Rev. Legg married a woman named Ida Hendrix. In July of 1901 Rev. Legg’s twelve year-old son (by his first wife), Paul, disappeared and was feared kidnapped. The boy had been sent into town on an errand to Beckham’s store on Court Street. The newspapers were insistent that the kidnapper(s) should be found and punished, stating that “If a negro boy is allowed to be spirited away in this fashion, how long will it be before the same projects may be worked off on white people?’’ In August, Henry Killen of Greenhill wrote to the Florence Times stating that a boy matching Leg’s description had been seen at Greenhill on July 14, where he remained for ten days under the name Robert Nichols, before he left, “going up the road.” Apparently Paul Legg was eventually reunited with his parents as both he and his father were accused of the attempted murder of a black woman named Matt Davis in November of 1907 however both were released when the only witness retracted her testimony. A native of Giles County, Tennessee Rev. John L. Legg apparently returned there and died in 1953."
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