ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many thanks to Sue Conklin, Genesee County Historian, and Don Read, Genesee County Clerk, for the excellent job they have done in preserving our county's history. Special thanks as well to Nancy Maybach Burkard, Jean Brownhill, and Carol Gillette for sharing their family's history; Roger Roeseler for his extensive research at the National Archives on our behalf, and Kathy Then for finding Polly after her release.

Bread & Butter: The
Murders of Polly Frisch
Polly put the kettle on,
Kettle on, kettle on.
Polly put the kettle on,
We'll all have tea.
-- Nursery
Rhyme,
Author
unknown.

Copyright © July 2000 by Cindy Amrhein and Ellen Lea Bachorski

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Modified detail of Alabama Center 1850s street map. Color & Letters added: F = S. Franklin. H = H. Hoog. B = E. Bickford. Among those in case. In above map image, north is to the right.

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