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The Gaffney Ledger is a tri-weekly newspaper in Gaffney, South Carolina. [1] It was founded in 1896 under the name The Ledger, and assumed its current name in 1907. [2] The paper has been owned and published by the Sossamon family for five generations.
Lee Roy Martin (April 25, 1937 – May 31, 1972), known as The Gaffney Strangler, was an American serial killer from Gaffney, South Carolina. He murdered four people—two women and two girls—between 1967 and 1968.
Clary was born on May 22, 1916, in Gaffney, South Carolina, and attended Gaffney High School there. A sportswriter reported after one game, "In Ed Clary, Gaffney presented a youngster who could do about everything one could expect of a first class triple threat man .
Dick Sheridan (August 9, 1941 – July 6, 2023) was an American college football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Furman University from 1978 to 1985 and North Carolina State University from 1986 to 1992, compiling a career college football record of 121–52–5.
Gaffney became a major center for the textile industry in South Carolina, which was the backbone of the county's economy up until the 1980s. Uptown Gaffney began to languish after Interstate 85 was built in the county as industries located near the new highway. Two serial killers have at different times attacked residents of Gaffney.
Bertha Mae Van Landingham Fontaine (September 3, 1929 – November 2, 1986) was an American home economist with the National Marine Fisheries Service.She was tasked with promoting the home use of seafood, through demonstrations, recipes, and media appearances, to support the fishing and canning industries in the Gulf Coast.
Richard Bernard Moore (February 20, 1965 – November 1, 2024) was an American man executed in South Carolina for murder. He was convicted of the September 1999 murder of James Mahoney, a convenience store clerk, in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Susan Audé (born October 31, 1952) is a retired American television news anchor in Columbia, South Carolina at WIS-TV.A child of military service parents she entered adulthood from Virginia to Erskine College in South Carolina in 1972 when she was seriously injured in a car accident in 1974.