Henry Smith
Henry Smith was held in the Owen County jail at Owenton, Kentucky, in August 1876, together with another man, Squire Hammond. Shortly after one o'clock on Saturday morning, August 19, a masked band of men took the two men from the jail and hanged them from a tree near town. A Cincinnati dispatch, reprinted in the Weekly Arkansas Gazette, said about forty men took part and that local residents generally approved of the killing. A shorter newspaper item gave the date and place of the hanging but named no sources for its account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati newspaper dispatch reprinted in the Weekly Arkansas Gazette says a masked band took Henry Smith from the Owen County jail at Owenton, Kentucky and hanged him from a tree near town.
Reported by: Cincinnati newspaper dispatch reprinted in the Weekly Arkansas Gazette (reporters).