Do you know if your grandfather was a member of the Freedom Party back then?
I could ask my Father, but I don’t know. I’m 52 and was in elementary school back then. He was a Baptist Deacon and a 32nd Degree Mason in Freer, but I don’t remember anything about the freedom party.
I do remember talk about Parr’s Duval County Sheriff’s Deputies getting in a running gun fight with the Freer Police and local men. Parr’s Deputies were not allowed in Freer.
I also remember a story where as revenge for trying to unseat Parr and get him jailed, he and his Deputy henchmen kidnapped daughters of some of the Freer ringleaders and turned them out in one of his brothels. After several tries and some time finding them, the girls were rescued.
Judge Parr was hated by many…