Georgia tann and ann atwood. Joy barner was stolen from loving parents and given to a man told her. Texas fort worth ward 8. Tann and her lesbian partner ann atwood hollinsworth began selling children around the country to anyone willing to pay her price often receiving as much as 100000 in todays money for babies.
Ann was eight years her junior. It is unclear when they started dating but when tann was terminated because of her questionable child placing methods in 1924 8 she moved to memphis tennessee with june atwood and atwoods infant son jack. For more than two decades georgia tann ran a lucrative child kidnapping and adoption ring.
You come from the lowest scum on earth jim lambert was taken from his mother by tann. Hollinsworth in dyer county a few years before her death. Hollinsworth in dyer county a few years before her death.
Georgia tann born beulah george tann. Georgia tann owned considerable property and purchased a home in memphis at 91 stonewall street a comfortable bungalow type structure of some 2200 square feet three bedrooms and two baths. Georgia was the director of the tennessee childrens home society in memphis which was eventually closed as a result of illegal kidnapping fraudulent documentation trafficking murder and selling of children.
Ann atwood hollinsworth was the one time lesbian lover of georgia tann the infamous baby thief of memphis. Tann adopted a daughter june. Ann atwood inmate 21 single mississippi house mother miss receiving home paid wages starting line 84 thru 100 kids 1920 tarrant co.
I paid 500 dollars for you i could have gotten a good hunting dog for a lot less. Tanns lesbian partner ann atwood hollinsworth helped tann traffick babies around the usa. Miss tann lived there with her partner ann atwood hollinsworth.
Miss tann lived there with her partner ann atwood hollinsworth. Adopted daughter of georgia tann. By the time her mother died in 1950 june was married to dr.
Tann officially adopted mrs. Later in 1943 she adopted ann atwood hollinsworth a woman believed to be tanns longtime same sex partner. By then she had met her lesbian partner ann atwood hollinsworth who helped tann ferry babies around the country as far from their natural parents as possible.
It was common at the time for same sex couples to use adult adoption as a means of transferring property or inheritances. Victor dupree watson and already had at least one son jack tann watson born 1947. The daughter of a family friend named ann atwood also worked at the home as a housemother.