Vaughn Echols "Eccles" Grant, born on September 8, 1888, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, was a former sheriff and U.S. Treasury Department Revenue Officer. He was involved in enforcing Prohibition laws in Western North Carolina. On June 1, 1926, Grant was killed during a vehicle pursuit of suspected moonshiners in Henderson County. He was 37 years old at the time of his death.
Grant and his partner, Will Owens, were conducting road patrols near Hendersonville when they observed a suspi
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