Famous Alabama Hanging
Stephen S. Renfroe, known as "Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff," was hanged either from or near the Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge outside Livingston by locals in July 1886. During that time, the bridge was located over the Sucarnoochee River and not Alamuchee Creek as many sources state.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, alabama and/or hanging:
“Satan, what ails you? Where’s the famous tongue?
Thou onetime Prince of Conversationists?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me;
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
“Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.”
—Denise McCluggage (b. 1927)