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The Last Choice They Made Sealed Their Fate

In the yellowed records of Mercer County, there is a short, almost careless note written in pencil in the corner of a page: “The final decision was made without opposition.” No other details accompany the sentence. No explanation. No names highlighted. Just the silent weight of something that, even decades later, continues to unsettle those who read it. The case to which this note refers occurred in the winter of 1907, in a region of narrow valleys and densely wooded hills, where the cold arrived early and isolation shaped the character of families. The place appears on maps of the time only as Ridgeway Crossing, a crossing point rather than a destination—a few wooden houses, a general store, a simple church, and dirt trails connecting distant farms.