There are only two known photographs ever published of Ferguson.  The one above is 30 years before his death.  A newer picture, from 1946, is at left.  It's a pic of the Gallatin Co Soil Conservation District Officers.  From the left, we have E. W. Collins, Frank Gardt, Sheriff Ferguson, Robert Clifton, and Louis Gex.

Literally hundreds of people came out on Sunday to mount a search of the countryside.  This crowd awaits news in Sparta.

The bad news came Monday.  You can see Ferguson's partially floating body in the lower part of the picture on the left.  In the center, is the crowd trying to get a look at the body.  On the right, is a 22-pound cast iron tie plate and a wire.  The plate was wired around his neck, and there was a gunshot wound in this head.

This is Sue Poteet, a niece of Sheriff Ferguson, pointing to the Eagle Creek pool where he was found.

This is Ferguson's wife, from whom he had been divorced for a year or two, but from whom he had been separated from 30 years; and his son, Jimmy,  who lived with his mother in Lynchburg, Virginia.  Ferguson was somewhat of a loner.  The Gallatin Co News described him as “Not the most popular man in the county, but the least disliked.”