Isaac E. Golladay
 Son of Frederick W. Golladay and Eugenia Stratton


Isaac became a friend of Dr. Francis Tumblety. Dr. Tumblety later became one of the suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders that occurred in London in the late 1800's. Jack the Ripper was also known as the Whitechapel Murderer.
 

Wednesday, 21 November 1888

My attention was directed to an article in your paper of yesterday (Tuesday, November 20), regarding the arrest of Dr. Tumblety in London on suspicion of being connected with the Whitechapel murders. The notice revived sad memories of the mysterious disappearance of young Isaac Golliday, whom I had known from childhood, and who visited my house up to the time of his singular disappearance. He often spoke of Dr. Tumblety, and some one told me his father, Frederick Golliday, had tried to break up the friendship between his son and Dr. Tumblety, as he had a bad opinion of him. If I have been correctly informed, Isaac Golliday left his father's boarding-house after dark and was never seen or heard of since. The last conversation I had with his father he had no clue as to his whereabouts. As Dr. Tumblety was not seen in Washington after Isaac Golliday's disappearance from home, it was hoped by his friends he had gone to Europe with the doctor and might possibly return. At the time of his disappearance he had about $100 in money and a watch valued at $180. Isaac Golliday was a nephew of ex-Congressmen Jacob and Edward Golliday of Kentucky.

- from the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)


Where the missing Isaac went is not known, but he apparently returned at a later date. A monument near the graves of his parents Frederick W. Golladay and Eugenia Stratton in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Lebanon, Tennessee bears the inscription " I.E. Golladay Aug, 23, 1859 - Sep. 7, 1934."

 
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