Sheriff hopes to honor fallen deputy
On Feb. 2, 1922, Walker County, Ga., Deputy Sheriff John “J.C.” Parrish was shot and killed while investigating a moonshine operation near Kendrick Switch in the High Point community of Walker County.
Parrish’s 14-year-old half-brother, Cecil Parrish, also was killed. Thomas Partain died in the gunfire.
I am working to have Parrish’s name engraved on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.
Parrish was never married. His sister, Emma Parrish, married Ben Autry (Autrey) in 1894. Their children were Rose (1896), Ada (1897), Charles (1899), Henry (1903), Mary Dorothy (1905) and Melvin (1910).