Looking for info on my ggrand parents possibly from Ga and hitting a brick wall.

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Can someone please help me break through this wall? My grandfather was Henry Thomas Duke b.1919 in Columbus, Ga. His SS app and claims index list parents as Henry Duke and Ernest Perryman (From Ga.) 1940 census list Thomas Redmond (My grandfather sometimes used the name of Redmond possibly as a result of adoption by a step-parent) with Emest Redmond (Widowed age in 1940 as 57) and I believe this to be a correct record. I'm not sure if they ever married each other. Henry was last known to have been in the Phenix City, Al area during the 1950's prior to marshal law being declared and used the nick name of "Red." I need help finding info on them or their lines. Thanks in Advance.

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I want to hear what you think Marshall Law means?  Then I would like to hear where exactly this Marshall Law was imposed.

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I know well what marshal law means and this period I am speaking of is what the movie the Phenix City Story is about. Phenix City was refered to as sin city due to significant illegal activity eg. gamboling, prostitution and mob type activities. Gen. Patton was in Ft. Benning, Ga at the time and many of the soldiers would go across the Chattahoochee River in to Phenix City and indulge in these activities. see this link for more info on the history of the events I am referring to.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phenix_City_Story

My uncle states my ggrand father was the family outlaw and heavily involved in these events and has not been heard from since.

  

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Christy:   You can Contact Georgia Vital Records. Have all your info you have on him Notorized.And your relationship to him.Most states are

releasing the parents names and who adopted them.

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I do have their names but can't find any info on them.