ON THE DAY Ringgold attorney McCracken “Ken” Poston bailed the operator of the Tri-State Crematory out of jail, he carried a farewell letter to his wife in his pocket, just in case he didn’t make it home.
As Poston and crematory operator T. Ray Brent Marsh left the Walker County jail, they forged their way through a jeering mob. Armed deputies were posted on the courthouse roof to protect Poston and his client from assassination. The attorney remembers people shouting, “You are scum, Poston. You’ll never work again.”
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