…my g/g/g/grandfather which was hanged during the civil war. A family member took the picture when she saw the photograph in an exhibit on the civil war. The picture she took was at an angle and my aunt asked me if I could try to restore it. Here is the picture she gave me and asked if I could restore. There was very little information data in the picture since it was pre 1864 so I did the best I could. What do you think?
 What I had to work from
 Restored to the best I could do (Able to print @ 5X7 @ 198 dpi.
BTW: Read the story below, very interesting. I have heard this story since I was a child and has appeared in some publications. You can look up on google “ William bill sketoe” or “bill sketoe” from Alabama and get some results.
Alabama
Newton
Choctawhatchee River Bridge
A shallow hole near the bank of this river is haunted. Locals say that even if the hole is filled with dirt during the day, by morning it will be empty and clean-swept. Highway workers once filled up the hole with dirt and pitched their tent directly on top of it, but the next morning the haunted hole was completely dug out again. The ghost of Bill Sketoe, former pastor of the Methodist Church, seems the likely cause. He was hanged on December 3, 1864, from an old tree that once stood on the spot. A group of vigilantes accused Sketoe of being a traitor to the Confederacy. In fact, Sketoe was totally innocent. At the lynching, the tree limb holding Sketoe's body bent enough so that his toes touched the ground, and the men had to hastily dig a hole beneath his feet, and the rope slowly strangled him to death. The six men soon started telling stories of meeting the innocent pastor's ghost, and eventually they all died violent deaths. For many years locals reported seeing Sketoe's vengeful phantom.(Newton is in the southeast corner of Alabama, northwest of Dothan on Highway 123. The oak tree was located where the old bridge crossed the Choctwhatchee River on the road from Newton. The hole is still there, next to the new concrete bridge. It is about thirty inches wide and eight inches deep. Bill Sketoe's grave is in the Mount Carmel Cemetery.)Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York:Penguin Book, 1994.
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