Dan Williams

Dan Williams was one of ten men a mob took from the jail where he was being held. A dispatch reprinted by the Knoxville Weekly Chronicle in September 1874 says his body was later found in a river-bottom about a mile from town. The same dispatch lists him among the men the mob murdered.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, reprinting a dispatch, lists Dan Williams among ten men a mob took from a jail and murdered.

Reported by: Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, reprinting a dispatch (reporters).

Source

• Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, September 2, 1874, page 1 Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, September 2, 1874