January 21, 2021 / Joanne Yeck

Buckingham County Crimes: The Murder of Meade Hanes, Part II

Well Water School. Courtesy Carole Jensen.

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Who was Mott Glover?

Less than two months before the murder, Mott Glover had participated in a school entertainment in Well Water, Buckingham County. Remarkably, an announcement about the event was printed in Richmond’s Times-Dispatch.

The commencement exercises of the Well Water public school took place on Friday evening, March 14, the teachers of the school, Miss Annie Floyd and Miss Ella Patterson, having charge of program. A large number of visitors were present, and the entertainment was opened with the chorus by the school, after which little Albert Maley delivered an address of welcome. There was a comedy sketch by Misses Cora Ola and Mary Agee and Messrs. Dewey, Ashby Maley and Ellyson Rush, and a recitation by little Melvin Eldridge. This was followed by a drama entitled, “Our Awful Aunt,” those taking part in the play being Miss Ella Patteson, Misses Pauline Patteson, Osie Agee, Helen Novell, Mott Glover, Rolfe Rush, Oscar, Augrey, Lenonard Maley and Buford Patteson. Six small girls took part in a butterfly drill, and others taking part in recitations and tableaux were Miss Inez Eldridge, Miss Ola Agee, Miss Thelma Agee and Rolfe Rush. The exercises were concluded with a chorus by the school and a farewell address by Charles Maley.

In 1910, Mott Glover was living in Slate River District with his parents, Charles and Anne Glover, and his younger brother, Cory. The census records that Mott was twenty-eight years old. He was about thirty years old when the murder was committed.

The fact that he appeared in “Our Awful Aunt” indicates that Mott Glover was included in community actives and behaved in a socially acceptable manner . . . at least in March, 1913.

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