A man named LYONS was killed by a negro man in Wilson county one night last week. He with twelve or fifteen others went to the negroe’s [sic] disguised, and demanded admittance. The negro fired, killing LYONS. Source: Whig and tribune. (Jackson, Tenn.), 02 Sept. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of
A difficulty occurred at Brentwood, Williamson County, a few days ago between Tho. H. ODEN and a negro, in which the negro was shot, but not dangerously hurt by ODEN. Source: Whig and tribune. (Jackson, Tenn.), 02 Sept. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033435/1871-09-02/ed-1/seq-2/>
Title: Shot On last Friday, at Mulberry, Needham P. KOONCE shot one of G.M. STEELE’s negro boys. KOONCE was correcting a brother of the boy shot, who interrupted, and would not desist until he received the wound. It is thought the boy will recover. — Lincoln Journal. Source: Nashville Union
Title: Track-boss Killed by Negroes Knoxville, Tenn., March 20 – Reuben BIRD, aged 26, white, employed as a track-boss on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad work fifteen miles from this city, was shot and fatally wounded today by negroes of his working gang who refused to go to work. Two
Mr. John C. LANIER, Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Memphis, will sell this morning, at eleven o’clock, in front of his office, south side of Court Square, all the slaves belonging to the estate of Reuben B. BERRY, deceased. There are eleven slaves in number, and all
On Sunday night last a burglar entered the sleeping apartment of Mr. Robert BROWN, Sr., on Royal street, but was discovered before effecting his purpose. As he fled from the house several shots were fired at him without effect. Before entering the house he had pulled off his shoes and
Jordan HOLT, a negro boy eighteen years of age, under sentence of death for violating the person of a white girl thirteen years old, and whose case had been appealed to the Supreme Court setting in Nashville, has had his sentence commuted by that court, from death to imprisonment for
There are very few slaves in this country now except editors, but there is a man in Jackson who has a negro boy that he bought before the war, and <…> him yet, the emancipation proclamation to the contrary notwithstanding. He is a fine black, sleek looking fellow, wears only
There are now confined in the Memphis jail 107 prisoners. Of these, three colored women – Lizzie LYONS, Mrs. WOOLDRIDGE and Charlotte NORMAN – are charged with murder. There are six white men charged with murder, and ten negroes – four of whom are under sentence of death. Source: Jackson
Ranaway from my place on Cow Island, on the 18th inst., my negro man, named SEWALL; he is about 30 years old – 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high; has a deep scar on one of his cheeks; very defective teeth; lowering look, and is a dark copper color.
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