Lemuel Ebberds

Lem Ebberds was a former resident of Monticello, Georgia, and owner of the '57 Chevy that would eventually become a spirit.[1][2] A moonshine runner at thirteen years old, Ebberds saved up for that '57 that he drove up until his death in 1959.[2]

That year, rains had damaged the Smithsonia Bridge sufficiently that, when Ebberds was fleeing from police, it collapsed beneath him, impaling the car on wrecked parts of the bridge.[3]

Speculation

Due to the end of prohibition in Georgia in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment, it is likely that Ebberds lived in what was at the time a dry community.

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