RECENT HISTORY
The Recent History of Brundidge
When considering the current history of the City of Brundidge, it is important to keep the history of the Johns family banishment in mind, and understand that the properties taken over by the white families would have been deeded & titled to the Johns family through Henrietta Collier-Johns and her husband Sherman.
Then ask the following questions:
1. Why have there been no major outside businesses or franchises established in Brundidge while the neighboring City of Troy (only 12 miles away) has grown to become the economic center of Pike County with soaring property values, booming businesses, and have nearly reached the limit of their expansion?
Ex-Mayor Ramage has professed that Brundidge wants to remain an ‘old timey town’ and not get like the bigger cities, all the while the people of Brundidge have been demanding new stores, places to eat, a motel where visiting family members could stay, just like most small towns off of a major thoroughfare like Highway 231, and not have to drive all the way to Troy for these things! —Note: Understand that any outside enterprises are going to seek clear title to any properties they need to purchase and build upon.
2. Why did the Brundidge City Hall get moved from the historic building at “124 Main Street” after Charles had filed documents with the Federal Court which identified that property as being part of Henrietta Collier’s estate? —Note: The City had occupied that property for well over 30 years and had supposedly been deeded that property from the Bass family. The records show, however, that the property ‘deed type’ is actually “Unknown,” all of which supports the claim that the property was part of the Johns estate and unlawfully taken by the white families after the banishment!
3. Why are there questions about the type of deed for the properties upon which the First National Bank of Brundidge was founded?
Just like with the questionable City Hall deeds (above), the Ramages have claimed clear titles to the properties upon which James T. Ramage, Senior had founded the bank. Examination of the property records show the deed type as being “Unknown” which suggests there is no clear title and the properties may have come from the Johns family’s estate!
4. Why has the Pike County Probate Court has refused to give Charles copies of the property title documents for the properties his family has lived on all of their lives, and which they inherited from Charles great grandmother, Henrietta?
The on-line records show the deed grantor as being “Unrecognized” which is not surprising given that the white families who took over the Johns properties have been trying to erase all evidence of Henrietta’s existence (to include their ancestors most likely participating in her murder) and the fact that she inherited a substantial amount of property from G.C. Collier!
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In 2016 Charles Presented the Following Documents to Bank
President James T. Ramage — Ramage Said the Documents Were “No Good,” Denied the Account Existed, and had Charles Arrested!
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5. Why did Bank President James T. Ramage tell Charles that the documents Charles had received from the Department of Human Resources (DHR) — which indicated there was a substantial bank account under Charles’ name and SSN at the First National Bank of Brundidge — were “no good” and tell Charles that the account did not exist?
Before DHR could even file the $23,000 levy/lien with the Alabama Secretary of State to seize funds from the estate account, as the documents indicated they had, DHR had to perform what is known as a “data match” to assure that the funds at the First National Bank of Brundidge actually belonged to Charles. Since Charles had never opened up any account at the First National Bank, and had never had earned enough money at his odds & ends jobs to open an account, the only source of that money was from his family’s estate accounts. It appears that Ramage has been concealing those accounts from the Johns family for many years and had Charles arrested to try to quash any more inquiries about the accounts.
DHR Documents Indicating Charles Has Substantial Account
at the First National Bank
6. Why did the new branch of the First National Bank of Brundidge, that was being built at the Publix shopping center in Troy in 2018, suddenly get shut down after Charles filed documents with the Federal Court in Montgomery, and complaints with the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C. (the agency in charge of regulating banks), that identified the fact that the Bank President Ramage has been concealing estate bank accounts from the Johns family?
This new branch project had already gone through the significant expense of pouring the cement foundation for the building, to include support for a large vault, when suddenly the project stopped and all of the materials for the building itself was sold off as scrap! With Ramage being identified as participating in bank fraud related to the Johns family, his financial backers, and the agencies involved, realized that Ramage’s days were numbered in the banking business and any new projects would be considered the products of that fraud under the RICO act!
NOTE: The recent 2020 merger between Troy Bank & Trust (TB&T) and the First National Bank of Brundidge (FNBB) was first proposed back in 2017 but was subsequently placed on hold while several of the injunctions Charles had filed against Bank President Ramage wound their way through the federal courts, to include the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Once it was clear that the federal courts were not going to hear Charles’ claims agains Ramage, the merger went through almost 3 years later. This merger tends to indicate that the perpetrators of the financial crimes against the Johns family are trying to further obscure their actions by being absorbed by the larger bank. It appears that the local white families tried to abscond with the Johns family’s financial assets after the banishment, and to hide those assets in the Henderson Trust No. 3 which substantially funds Troy Bank & Trust. The Henderson family has extensive ties to both TB&T and FNBB and their descendant’s involvement in the crimes against the Johns family comes as no surprise.
See the following links for additional information:
Charles Court Cases/Filings Related to the Estate Accounts
Henderson Family’s Involvment in FNBB and TB&T
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PLEASE NOTE: If you are an attorney, a journalist, a historian (or students of the same), a civil rights activist, a publisher, a
celebrity, or just someone who really cares about the fundamental rights of minorities and is interested in helping to correct long standing & deep seated racial injustice that continues to be
perpetuated in the State of Alabama against a minority black family — THEN CONTACT US AND TELL US HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP!! We are trying to get legal representation for Charles (who is still incarcerated because he took the DHR documents to the bank
so he could find out about his estate account! WE APPRECIATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN OUR ATTEMPT TO GET JUSTICE FOR CHARLES & THE REST OF THE JOHNS FAMILY!