Near the coast of St. Simons Island, and on the highway there is a marble slab on the ground covered with grass. It has been nicknamed "the beloved teacher", where the inhabitants of the island trade the story of a teacher who was unjustly executed for sorcery and conjuring.....

The story dates back to 200 years ago, when the owners of rice farms decided to hire a teacher to teach their children at the school that was built near the forest. After a long search they found their way in Ohio when Margaret accepted the contract and decided Traveling to that island, she loves traveling and has traveled on many trips between Europe and America.





On the island, parents prepare for the new teacher to decorate the school and prepare food and drink. In the harbor, the mayor and the dignitaries attended the island accompanied by some parents to receive Mrs. Margaret and the slaves transferred their belongings and bags to her home adjacent to the school and there explained to her the nature of her work and stressed that the education exclusively on the children of the poor and the owners of farms without children slaves They have the right to do nothing but work in fields and serve their masters. Margaret agreed to the words of the mayor and broke into a serious dispute, one of the attendees and suggested that the teacher teach their children in the morning and teach the children of slaves in the evening, Margaret agreed to this proposal, and before leaving the school mayor told her that he would not pay her money for education to children slaves.





Margaret continued to teach the rich children by day and in the evening she taught the children of the poor and the slaves by candlelight and the little lantern hanging from the ceiling of the ceiling. For them, Margaret was the light that illuminated the darkness of bondage and oppression. But in the daytime she drew the perseverance and perseverance of Joshua, the brown boy who, despite his difficult circumstances and the life of slavery he lived, never missed any of her evening lessons, and for a keen passion for science he sneaked sneakily into the classroom window, Stories that Margaret had received on the students ......., Marguerite, as she teased him, deliberately raised her voice to hear what she was saying. One day she called him after the lesson and said to him: "I see you love science and love poetry. What is the secret behind this passion? How do you reconcile your education and work? In the rice fields?".
Joshua replied:"As you see, I am a slave and education is the key to liberating me from this slavery. My work in the fields will lead to a good man and allow me to leave the field early." Then I smiled and went out to play with the children.





Margaret sat thinking about what Joshua said, how difficult circumstances might shape a human being, forgetting his childhood and talking more of it. Then she laughed and said to herself, "This little boy may have a great future. The greats and the inventors were poor and destitute.
Joshua was absent from the study for several days and missed Margaret and asked why he was absent from the study and was surprised by the news of the death of Joshua after the violent conflict occurred on the island, after the killing of one of the field owners by a slave rice field white men arrested and hanged and did not Healed them and they gathered in the evening carrying axes and torches and attacked the huts of slaves and was a terrible night where dozens of slaves were killed and burned their huts,Among the huts are Joshua's hut, which the attackers broke his door and broke into and attacked his family,While Joshua was watching what was happening with horror through the curtain and saw the scene of blood, but gathered courage and tried to defend his mother, who tried to attack one of the attackers, but was hit by an ax on his head and killed immediately as the aggressors burned his hut as they did huts Other slaves.




Margaret was sad when she heard what happened to Joshua the poor and was depressed and no longer spoke to anyone except during the teaching of children and she went to the forest and spend a long time meditate.
One day, while returning from the forest, I felt someone watching her. I heard the sound of a flutter above her and I looked up at the sky. I saw a huge crow flying over it, as if following it. This scene was repeated several times and a friendly relationship arose between Margaret and that crow. Accompanied by her on her way to school, so that the crow came to visit her in school and stood on the window as if listening to the explanation, Margaret remembered her little friend Joshua, and how he was sneezing out of the window to allow poetic poems. After the session, Margaret approached the bird and read some of the poems and noticed his reaction with his head down.




The crow came every day reading stories and poetry. The day came when two of the students returned to school to retrieve their belongings. They saw the teacher talking and laughing with the crow and quickly returned to their parents to tell them that their teacher was charming and At the urging of the mayor and some of the rich who objected to her teaching to the children of the slaves, the police stormed the school at night and arrested her, and despite the lack of sufficient evidence to convict her except the talk of people about She spoke with the crow has ruled Was sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft in a quick trial and was given no opportunity to defend herself.



Despite her crying and begging, she was hanged and her body was left hanging on the tree and prevented from being buried in the church's cemetery on the grounds that she was a witch and would desecrate the cemetery. But one of the rich had pity on her and buried her in a plot of land. The beloved parameter phrase may be engraved on it.
After this incident for months people noticed that the plants and herbs do not grow on her grave, which reinforced their suspicions that she was charming while some insisted that she was a good woman tried to teach children and rejected the slavery system that existed at that time causing her a lot of trouble where she ordered The mayor and his rich people, who had been accused of witchcraft, were dismissed as a threat to their society, believing that their education of slave children might prompt them to demand freedom.
And since then the story of that poor teacher has become a price that paid her life for refusing the traditions of that closed society of the folklore stories of that island and passed on to people generation after generation.



Perhaps the story of the teacher Margaret is just an unfounded folkloric story. The names in the story are without titles, although the tombstone of the beloved teacher remains to this day near Lawrence Road in the north of the island.....



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