Dan Gooseby

A Black man recorded under the names Dan Gooseby and Davo Goosby was being held in the jail in Valdosta, Georgia. According to the Evening Bulletin, early on September 19, 1894, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him. A later newspaper item carried the same account of a mob taking him from the jail and hanging him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief item reprinted from another paper says a mob took him from the Valdosta, Georgia jail and hanged him.

Reported by: news reports.

News reports (2)

• The Evening Bulletin, September 20, 1894, page 4 The Evening Bulletin, September 20, 1894
• The Marietta Journal, September 27, 1894, page 1 The Marietta Journal, September 27, 1894