Murder in South Knoxville: The Strange Case of Lottie Cummings.
Just past Mead’s Quarry on Island Home Pike, less than half a mile south of the Tennessee river, the stretch of road between the quarry and Sevierville Pike, a distance of about two miles, is as peaceful as any in South Knoxville. It’s one of those neighborhoods that doesn’t appear to have a ready name of its own; few landmarks exist there today, only a few scattered houses and a couple of churches. But in the summer of 1893, this section of South Knoxville proved to be the scene of the ghastly murder of 9-year-old Louis Kinzie Cummings.
The murder and its aftermath were extensively covered…
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