Lemuel Owen Standridge

When Lemuel Owen Standridge was born on December 23, 1856, in Arkansas, his father, Lemuel, was 42 and his mother, Peggy, was 36. He married Eugenia Arnold and they had three children together. He then married Nancy Jane Freeman and they had nine children together. He died on March 11, 1929, at the age of 72.

In 1912, Noah Standridge was arrested for moonshining in the foot-hills of the Boston Mountains, 55 miles north of Russellville by Deputy John Burris. Owen Standridge and his son Jim were said to be owners of the still, which was destroyed by the Burris Posse. They escaped arrest. They were sleeping in the hog pen near their house, and made their escape under the cover of two shot-guns pointed in the direction of Deptuy Collector, W. F. Freeman, with the general command, "STAND BACK! Advance another step and we will fire." The two mountaineers escaped and two were captured (Noah Standridge and Louis Gunter). (Courier Democrat, June 13, 1912.)

Pulling the shot gun on the Burris Posse sent Lemuel Owen Standridge to the Georgia Penitentiary--his sentence was for a year and a day!  He served each day without early parole!