BEST GUESS FOR BURIAL - Death Certificate only gives "Seguin Colored Cemetery" as burial location. If you have any more insight, please let me know.
d/o George Oliver & Lucinda ?
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Emma "Straight Eight" Oliver was one of the first women, and the first black woman, to be sentenced to death in Texas. Her sentence was later commuted to life in prison, and she died at the Goree Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
"Oliver, an expert with a knife, slashed to death a woman and two men with her long, "straight eight" blade...In 1934, Oliver killed Rosie Brown after an argument. Oliver thrust her knife into Brown's chest. She received a five-year suspended sentence for the murder...In 1946, Oliver killed Jerry Eberon. She was sentenced to five years but only served 18 months...In 1950, Oliver stabbed Herman Cohn, 35, of Conroe, to death in her room...He was reportedly killed over a $3 debt.
[Source: "San Antonio murderess Emma 'Straight Eight' Oliver was among first women to be sentenced to die in Texas"; San Antonio Express-News, April 22, 2022; by Timothy Fanning]
d/o George Oliver & Lucinda ?
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Emma "Straight Eight" Oliver was one of the first women, and the first black woman, to be sentenced to death in Texas. Her sentence was later commuted to life in prison, and she died at the Goree Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
"Oliver, an expert with a knife, slashed to death a woman and two men with her long, "straight eight" blade...In 1934, Oliver killed Rosie Brown after an argument. Oliver thrust her knife into Brown's chest. She received a five-year suspended sentence for the murder...In 1946, Oliver killed Jerry Eberon. She was sentenced to five years but only served 18 months...In 1950, Oliver stabbed Herman Cohn, 35, of Conroe, to death in her room...He was reportedly killed over a $3 debt.
[Source: "San Antonio murderess Emma 'Straight Eight' Oliver was among first women to be sentenced to die in Texas"; San Antonio Express-News, April 22, 2022; by Timothy Fanning]
BEST GUESS FOR BURIAL - Death Certificate only gives "Seguin Colored Cemetery" as burial location. If you have any more insight, please let me know.
d/o George Oliver & Lucinda ?
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Emma "Straight Eight" Oliver was one of the first women, and the first black woman, to be sentenced to death in Texas. Her sentence was later commuted to life in prison, and she died at the Goree Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
"Oliver, an expert with a knife, slashed to death a woman and two men with her long, "straight eight" blade...In 1934, Oliver killed Rosie Brown after an argument. Oliver thrust her knife into Brown's chest. She received a five-year suspended sentence for the murder...In 1946, Oliver killed Jerry Eberon. She was sentenced to five years but only served 18 months...In 1950, Oliver stabbed Herman Cohn, 35, of Conroe, to death in her room...He was reportedly killed over a $3 debt.
[Source: "San Antonio murderess Emma 'Straight Eight' Oliver was among first women to be sentenced to die in Texas"; San Antonio Express-News, April 22, 2022; by Timothy Fanning]
d/o George Oliver & Lucinda ?
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Emma "Straight Eight" Oliver was one of the first women, and the first black woman, to be sentenced to death in Texas. Her sentence was later commuted to life in prison, and she died at the Goree Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
"Oliver, an expert with a knife, slashed to death a woman and two men with her long, "straight eight" blade...In 1934, Oliver killed Rosie Brown after an argument. Oliver thrust her knife into Brown's chest. She received a five-year suspended sentence for the murder...In 1946, Oliver killed Jerry Eberon. She was sentenced to five years but only served 18 months...In 1950, Oliver stabbed Herman Cohn, 35, of Conroe, to death in her room...He was reportedly killed over a $3 debt.
[Source: "San Antonio murderess Emma 'Straight Eight' Oliver was among first women to be sentenced to die in Texas"; San Antonio Express-News, April 22, 2022; by Timothy Fanning]
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