Bon Lovett
Bon Lovett, a Black man, was being held in the Morgan County jail in Georgia awaiting trial when, early one morning in August 1913, a group of about a hundred masked men entered the building. According to a Brunswick News dispatch, they overpowered Sheriff W. L. Calhoun to take the keys, then shot Lovett in his cell. The sheriff was choked unconscious and cut during the attack, and the newspaper reported that the mob left in an orderly manner. The account is a single newspaper dispatch and includes no further details about Lovett himself.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Edison, Ga. reports that a mob of about a hundred masked men took Bon Lovett from the Morgan County jail and shot him in his cell.
Reported by: The Brunswick News dispatch from Edison, Ga. (reporters).