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- Description is exactly "A Florence Herald and Florence Times article reporting the Saturday night, April 2, 1921 robbery of Florence African-American gas company employee Robert Walker by two unknown white men, who stole $28 from Walker.
In 1910 Robert Walker (ca. 1860-1938), a bachelor, was a foreman at the gas plant in Florence; in 1910 and 1920 Walker was a boarder on Poplar Street and Tennessee Street respectively but by 1930 the still-single Walker had retired from the gas company and was farming rental property on Huntsville Road and by 1935 was farming on Tuscaloosa Street. He died December 7, 1938, at his address of 504 Hudson Street, Florence and was buried in the Hopewell AME Church Cemetery on Waterloo Road."
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