This blog started as an attempt to find a lynching for every day of the year. It is a grim part of United States history that I fear too many find easy to shrug away. After two years, I am now focusing on finding more information on the lynchings I have covered as well as posting about lynchings I have not, regardless of excuse given for the lynching.
Friday, July 4, 2014
July 4, 1899: Henry Stewart
From the Estherville Daily News dated July 6, 1899:
A Kentucky Lynching.
Henry Stewart, the negro who robbed and seriously shot Gail Hamilton, a negro, and robbed M. Choate, a section foreman, at Fulton, Ky., was taken out of jail Tuesday night and lynched by supposed negroes and a white mob.
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