GRANVILLE EDWARD FARISH

Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 37-E: 20
Department: Conway County, Arkansas, S.D.
End of Watch: December 10, 1922
Cause: SHOT
Age: 32
Years of Service: 5
Description: Sheriff Farish and his deputies were trying to protect citizens from a KKK demonstration. Someone from the crowd threw a rock at the KKK, and gunfire broke out. Sheriff Farish was shot fatally, one deputy was wounded and several officers were beaten.
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