THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - WHO WERE THOSE MASKED MEN?

It was a sad cold day in Dublin on the morning of February 23, 1922.  The friends and family of Alma Faye Stuckey Baggett were gathering around her grave in Northview Cemetery to pay their final respects.  As Mrs. Charles E. Baggett's coffin was being lowered into the ground, eight masked men, dressed in the full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan, suddenly and silently marched double time  two abreast toward the sorrowful gathering of the recently turned thirty-one-year-old woman.

The stunned mourners stared in disbelief as the Klansmen split their columns and surrounded the grave.  At the head of the grave, the staid admirers placed a large wreath with a note which read, "In appreciation of the life of this good woman.  Dublin Klan No. 108, Realm of Georgia, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan."  As silently as they appeared, the octette disappeared into the surrounding neighborhood.

Some speculated that the grieving widower was himself a member of the Klan or perhaps a close member of the departed's family was a member as well.  It could just be that  the masked mourners were honoring a pure woman, a devoted wife, an affectionate mother and a good friend to all.  (Macon Telegraph, 2-24-1922)