The greatest mystery in the history of Gallatin County is this:
What
happened to Hub Ferguson on the night of June 18, 1954?
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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. |
| Ferguson's abandoned car was found at this spot on Park Ridge Road. His gun was missing from the glove compartment, it's usual home. |
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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. |
A map of where the body was found.
| This is Sue Poteet, a niece of Sheriff Ferguson, pointing to the Eagle Creek pool where he was found. |
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Over 500 people attended the funeral at Carlton's Funeral Home.
This is Harlan Heliman, the Commonwealth Attorney
in charge of the investigation
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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.” |
The complete story of Hub Ferguson is here.
Roy Wheeler's site on the Ferguson story is here.
