Wiley Pierce
Born - Jan. 10, 1882.
Robert Wesley Crain
Born - Aug. 16, 1886.
Both Murdered
March 3, 1923.
Two native sons of Washington Parish. True and loyal citizens, officers of the Law, were foully shot to death while in the performance of a dangerous duty and their bodies brutally tramped into the mud of Betsy's Creek Swamp by illicit distillers of "moonshine" whiskey.
"Lest We Forget"