Documented by Gracie Henderson Smith 1900 Census data Stewart Census 1900 Census data Elijah Drake, Henry Smith, and James Stewart were three young men who resided in Madrid Bend, Fulton County, Kentucky. Fulton County is located in western Kentucky, next to the Mississippi River and on the borders
Documented by Cameron Smith In early September 1905, Moses Lovern of Williamson, West Virginia was arrested for assaulting James Butcher, a well-off businessman. Convicted of the crime, he began serving a 60 day sentence later in the month. On September 24th, in the middle of the
Documented by Cameron Smith Lewis or “Lon” Beard was born in March of 1887 to Curtis and Lillie Beard. He was the second oldest son of seven siblings and was born and raised in the predominantly white community of Elk Creek, Kentucky. Lewis’s immediate family was
Documented and compiled by Annika Myrup The Chicago Tribune has a very detailed account of lynchings across the US from 1900 to 1910. During these 11 years, the Chicago Tribune lists a total of 40 people lynched in Kentucky. Additionally, there is a separate list of
Carter, Lexington Herald Leader, July 31, 2020 The descendants of the lynchers and the victim met in 2020. Click the link below for the article, "KY families connected by a lynching meet 120 years later." https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/bourbon-county/article244571317.html George Thomas Carter was an African American man born in Kentucky in
Dooley, Paducah Democrat February 15, 1902 Bill Dooley was an African American man who lived in the outskirts of Fulton, Kentucky (a town in southwestern Kentucky bordering Tennessee) with his wife and children. He was employed as a railroad section hand by the Illinois Central Railroad.
1900 Census Wilson County TN Joseph Richardson was an African American man who lived near Leitchfield in Grayson County, Kentucky. He was born in 1889 in the state of Tennessee. He was the son of Joe and Nannie Richardson. Within their household in Tennessee at the 1900
Wallace Miller was a black teenager born in February of 1891 in the state of Kentucky. He resided in Cadiz, located in Trigg County, Kentucky, with several family members, including his father Bubbard Miller, his mother Della Miller, brothers Rumsy Miller and Robert Miller, sister
Joe Bumpus was a Black man born in September of 1869 in Tennessee. He eventually moved to Kentucky, and married a woman named Addie in 1898. She had a daughter named Henrietta who was born before they married, but Bumpus claimed her as his stepdaughter
Tom Weaver was an African American man born in Kentucky in January 1868. He moved around adjacent counties, and according to the 1900 Census, he resided in Herndon, Christian County as a boarder of the Blair family. He was a farm laborer who gathered tobacco
