Henry Archer
Henry Archer was held in the Elizabethton jail for several days before an armed company led by Duvall took him out in handcuffs and marched him to a remote spot on Indian Creek called the Boneyard, where he was shot. According to a February 1893 National Tribune account, his neighbors described him as a good man. His wife and young child traveled to Elizabethton to plead for his life, and before leaving the jail he said farewell to them tenderly. At the place of killing, he prayed for his wife, his child and his killers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Civil War-era newspaper account says Duvall's rebel company took him from the Elizabethton jail, marched him to the Boneyard on Indian Creek, and shot him there.
Reported by: newspaper account of the killing.