In the summer of 1936, the life of Deputy Sheriff Clarence Edward Simmons, a 43-year-old male, was cut tragically short in an act of retaliatory violence. While driving on Franklin Road, just south of Uncle Tom's BBQ in Roanoke County, Virginia, a vehicle pulled up alongside him. From within that car, a shotgun blast erupted, ending the lawman's life. He was a devoted family man, having taken his children to church the night before his death, and left behind a wife and eight children, with anoth
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